Sue Grafton Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
-
I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
-
I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
-
I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
-
Those who go along get along.
-
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
-
I'm not saying I like to be kicked, but it's good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.
-
I have been playing tennis for a very long time. Tennis is my life. I see my life in other places, and there are other challenges for me.
-
Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
-
The whole mythological side of 'Twin Peaks' was really down to me, and I've always known about the Theosophical writers and that whole group around the Order of the Golden Dawn in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century - W. B. Yeats, Madame Blavatsky, and a woman called Alice Bailey, a very interesting writer.
-
Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.
-
Ticket sales will get higher the day after roasts.
-
There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
-
The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.
-
I am fairly certain that our budget deficit was not caused by children with autism or 90-year-old grannies in nursing homes, so why take it out on them by cutting services?
-
I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.
-
You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.
-
One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.
-
Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
-
That was probably the highlight of my career. I learned more from him my first few years than probably I have from any individual through my career.
-
Its appearance is constantly changing. It might sound strange to say this of an inanimate building, but every time you see the Taj, it looks different. The color of its white marble changes throughout the day, from the waxy yellow at dawn through to the pastel blue-gray of a full moon.
-
This is not about race or affiliation, and it isn't about black versus blue. All lives matter.
-
My experiences remind me that it's those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.
-
Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.
