Sue Grafton Quotes

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them." "I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly. "Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.

Sue Grafton

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• Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • Good
  • Society

• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Me
  • Find
  • Mad

• The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • City
  • Play

• Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Real
  • Fall

• Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Action
  • Easy
  • Suspense

• I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Same

• First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Always
  • First
  • Immigrants

• I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Pretty
  • Find
  • Jeans

• I love girl power.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Love
  • Power
  • Girl

• Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Important
  • Quality
  • Lie

• I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• 'It's interesting to see the dislocation between how people perceive a person visually. Apparently on the radio I'm blonde with a big arse.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Blonde

• The American public was lied to about the Vietnam War month by month by each of these five administrations Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • American
  • War
  • Fool

• reading an email 'Dear Craig, … are your letters written by your writers?' No. 'Does this make me one of your writers?' (ponders) Yes. 'Why haven't I been paid?' Because you're one of my writers!

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Why
  • Reading

• about solar energy If you ask your congressman why, he'll say 'Because it's hard. It's really hard. Makes me want to go poopie.' You know why we don't have solar energy? It's because the sun goes away each day, and it doesn't tell us where it's going!

  

  Lewis Black
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Sun

• Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Thinking
  • Logic

• The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • World

• I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

  

  Chris Isaak

• When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • People
  • Fun
  • House

• There's going to be a Google or a Facebook or a Zynga every three to five years. Those are really big ideas that do return substantial amounts of money.

  

  Dave McClure
  • Money

• I feel, as an artist, that we don't do enough to appreciate our fans. We are in this position because of the fans, and it's really a blessing.

  

  Ne-Yo

• Players lose you games, not tactics. There's so much crap talked about tactics by people who barely know how to win at dominoes.

  

  Brian Clough
  • People

• Being fit will keep you mentally sharp and people forget that.

  

  Peter Shilton
  • People

• Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them." "I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly. "Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mean