Sue Grafton Quotes

People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.

Sue Grafton

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• Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Child

• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Great
  • Pleasure
  • Plants

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Done
  • Beginning
  • Successful

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Movies

• My motto is more, 'If you want to find something new, look for something new!' There is a certain amount of risk in this attitude, as even the slightest failure tends to be resounding, but you are so happy when you succeed that it is worth taking the risk.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Happy
  • Risk
  • Failure

• The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Teacher

• Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Choice

• If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Going
  • Election

• It's so weird that I play this woman who pretty much deals with violence on a daily basis, and I'm such a wimp in who I am.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Pretty
  • Woman
  • Violence

• I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • History
  • Think
  • Death

• I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Why
  • Natural
  • Big

• To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Good
  • You
  • Me

• Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Glory
  • Journalism
  • Surely

• A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • You
  • Exercise
  • Pencil

• I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Kind
  • Story
  • Cinderella

• The problem is that too often the only people who can act don’t want change. Power doesn’t so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People
  • Power

• The Turks would do anything with a captured screaming infidel body - make it chew its own penis, thrust the testicles up the anus, saw the noseless earless head off with slow delicacy.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Up

• I can dance to Beyonce, sing karaoke, create strategy, go on dates, and build a multi-billion company and show the world that women can build big businesses.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • World
  • Women
  • Dance

• Time alone is irreplaceable. Waste it not.

  

  Douglas Southall Freeman
  • Time
  • Alone

• When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Great
  • Earth
  • Grow

• Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson - who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish!

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • Country
  • History

• People in California seem to age at a different rate than the rest of the country. Maybe it's the passion for diet and exercise, maybe the popularity of cosmetic surgery. Or maybe we're afflicted with such a horror of aging that we've halted the process psychically.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Country
  • Passion
  • Exercise