Mal Peet Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
-
I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
-
I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
-
The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
-
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
-
For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
-
Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
-
I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
-
Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
-
After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
-
I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
-
Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
-
Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
-
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
-
I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
-
We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
-
The detail that goes into couture stuff is insane. Everything is handmade - every sequin, every double stitch.
-
When I was 4 years old, my brother and sister died of hunger, so I achieved my success through confidence, self-motivation and my hard work.
-
Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.
-
My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets.
-
Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're helping people getting better paying jobs so they can provide for their own health care.
-
I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.
