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

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

  

  Andre Balazs

• I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.

  

  Fred Rogers
  • Discipline
  • Everyday

• My family was always playing music; I always enjoyed it. My cousin, who is a little older than me, he started playing music, so I wanted to, also. I asked my dad for a guitar, and he got me a banjo, so that was my introduction to playing. I played it like a guitar. I had a few lessons, learned out a few chords, and figured it out right away.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Music
  • Family
  • Dad

• I don't think I'm a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some women I do hate.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
  • Women
  • Hate
  • Beer

• If you make the schedule exciting and make the events exciting, that is what guarantees you the people to come back if they had a good time.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• A king should die on his feet.

  

  Louis XVIII of France
  • Die
  • King

• I decided to come back and teach goodness in this business. To teach love, because music is the universal language. We are God's bouquet, and through music we become one.

  

  Little Richard
  • Music
  • God
  • Business

• The struggle is what teaches you.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Struggle
  • Teach