William Kent Krueger Quotes

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

William Kent Krueger

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• I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Style
  • Like
  • Excellent

• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Want
  • Perfect

• In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Me
  • Superstar

• It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Different
  • Find

• You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.

  

  Beck
  • Inspiration
  • Record

• I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Experience
  • Religious
  • Never

• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • High
  • English

• I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Try

• Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Place

• This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Thought
  • Transformation

• I wasn't a great debater.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Great

• Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • You
  • Education
  • Tired

• In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.

  

  Wayne Swan
  • Up
  • Country
  • Never

• When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Character
  • Future
  • Past

• Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Business
  • Cutting

• I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Think
  • Universe
  • Humor

• He's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing, right?" "Like what?" "Like hitting on you." "Ew. No, of course not. He doesn't see me that way." Michael shook his head and went back to his coffee. "What? You think he does?" "Sometimes he looks at you a little... oddly, that's all. Maybe you're right. Maybe he just wants you for your blood." "Again, Ew! What's with you this morning?" "Not enough coffee.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Way
  • Morning
  • Coffee

• I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Think
  • Baseball
  • Themes

• I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Life
  • Crazy
  • Stuff

• We are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000 despite a larger population and more kids to educate. We know that the single most important thing in terms of how well we can compete around the world is the quality of our workforce. We can't do that to our kids.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Important
  • Kids

• ...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

  

  William Kent Krueger
  • World
  • Believe
  • Men