Sue Grafton Quotes

You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.

Sue Grafton

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• What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Job
  • Inspiration
  • Writer

• I really don't know life without wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Know
  • Wrestling

• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Interest
  • Debt

• I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.

  

  C. J. Box
  • Writing
  • Research
  • Admit

• The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Simple
  • Will

• Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Song
  • Words
  • Tears

• The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Time
  • She
  • Power

• Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Great
  • Positive
  • Negative

• Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Men
  • Female
  • Manipulate

• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Education
  • Learning

• I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his works may throw light upon his life. An artist with certain imaginative ideas in his head may then involve himself in relationships which are congenial to them.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Jesus loved me and I knew not why. And I loved Him because He quickened my spirit to heights beyond my stature, and to depths beyond my sounding. Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Why
  • May
  • Jesus

• There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life
  • Home
  • Growing

• I look ridiculous in a three-piece suit - I'm too fat.

  

  Dominic West

• During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

  

  Kevin Pietersen
  • Time

• When I'm a part of someone else's creative process, it's all about facilitating their ideas and hopefully bringing their perspective and making it a part of a song.

  

  Miguel
  • Song
  • Perspective

• I never really thought of myself as an Asian-American cartoonist, any more than I thought of myself as a cartoonist who wears glasses.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • American

• I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.

  

  John Stossel
  • Anchor

• The funny thing was, you see, that Mike Fink didn't think of himself as a murderer. He thought of life as a contest, and dying was what happened to those who came out second best, but it wasn't the same as murder, it was a fair fight.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Dying

• People might say paper is dead or dying, but actually, it's not at all. It's just more rarified. The choice to send paper has more meaning because of the fact that you don't have to.

  

  Alexa Hirschfeld
  • People
  • Dying

• Bob: Welcome to the Lucky Strike Program. In just a few minutes, you'll see our star, Gypsy Rose Benny.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Star
  • Rose
  • Gypsy

• You can't make anyone love you and you can't stop anyone from dying.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Dying