Sue Grafton Quotes

The struggle is what teaches you.

Sue Grafton

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• Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Possible
  • Coincidences

• Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Red

• The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Day
  • Should
  • University

• Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Words
  • Building
  • Blossom

• Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Job
  • Weird

• We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Always
  • Boundaries
  • Push

• I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Want
  • Travel
  • I Can

• Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Good
  • You
  • Evil

• I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Love
  • Man
  • Leading

• Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.

  

  Randy Pausch

• Mehr Licht!

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The intelligence of the universe is social.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Universe

• Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • Great
  • Family
  • Christmas

• I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • School
  • High
  • House

• My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer's school, because I told them producing is what I love to do, and it makes me happy to share my music and my passion with others. I was dreaming to go to that school. I begged them. They were like, 'Yah, know what? If you are happy, we are happy.'

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Music
  • School
  • Happy

• My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My Father!' I'd never given acting a thought. They were proud of me and very encouraging.

  

  David Krumholtz
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Proud

• Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.

  

  Ellen G. White

• Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

  

  Andre Balazs

• All portions of All That Is are constantly changing, enfolding, and unfolding. All That Is, seeking to know Itself, constantly creates new versions of Itself. For this seeking Itself is a creative activity and the core of all action.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Action

• It's perfectly possible to love your toddler but struggle to like them when times are hard.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Struggle

• But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.

  

  Sukarno
  • World
  • Struggle
  • Nation

• The struggle is what teaches you.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Struggle
  • Teach