Adam Langer Quotes

He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.

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• Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Money
  • Worry
  • Making Money

• The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Words

• An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Society
  • Intellectual
  • Call

• I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • God
  • Success

• Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • She
  • Yourself

• Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moving
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Enjoy
  • Race
  • Event

• We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • People
  • Great
  • Problem

• What's so lovely about Wonder Woman is yes, she has the strength and power of a goddess, but she has the heart and mind of a human. So I play her as I think a woman like me would act in the situations she's going through. You treat her as a normal woman who happens to be fantastic and almighty.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Power

• At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Character
  • Book
  • America

• If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Rise Up

• With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal.

  

  Han Suyin
  • People
  • Habit
  • Betrayal

• I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Different
  • Earth
  • Space

• Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • World
  • Vision
  • Face

• Without education, confidence does not come.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Education
  • Confidence
  • Doe

• Who imagined that what I said upon my departure from Beirut would become a reality, when I said the volcano and typhoon which started in Beirut will not stop.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Reality
  • Stop

• You can have your secret as long as I have your heart.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Secret

• Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you.

  

  Nan Kempner
  • Want
  • Looks
  • Awful

• I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Song

• Huh, guess ah shouldn't huh did it. (imitating Britney's 55-hour husband Jason Allen Alexander) Come on, Mr. Britney. Grammar, grammar.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Husband

• Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • American
  • Baseball
  • Games

• He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.

  

  Adam Langer
  • Stories
  • Wrote
  • Admired