Gayle Forman Quotes
Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
Quotes to Explore
-
It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
-
Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
-
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
-
No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
-
I was unbelievably lucky.
-
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
-
It's healthy to have interests besides books.
-
If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
-
One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
-
I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
-
My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
-
Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
-
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
-
Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
-
I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
-
I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
-
Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
-
Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
-
Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.
-
The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand.
-
I'm constantly snatching my books out of the hands of precocious ten-year-olds who are simply too young to read them, despite parents insisting that dear Octavia has a reading age of 28. I remember trying to read 'In Cold Blood' at the age of twelve, and realising that just because you can read book doesn't mean you should.
-
I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.
-
It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.
-
Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
