Allen Steele Quotes

A long mission was ahead of them, and no one wanted to get on anyone else's nerves with unnecessary chatter.

Allen Steele

• Mission
• Nerves
• Chatter

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Culture
  • Know
  • Irony

• Jews had an outsider's eye on a lot of Western tradition.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Eye
  • Tradition
  • Jews

• If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Great
  • God
  • Family

• I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Time
  • Great
  • Country

• Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Done
  • Land
  • Village

• My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Real
  • Ideas

• I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Work
  • Think
  • Serious

• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Best

• Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Money
  • Single
  • Problems

• Sometimes you have to understand your place.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Understand

• Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Time
  • Great
  • Literature

• I'm pretty terrible at writing, so the way I kind of therapeutically get through things is by drawing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Writing
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• Ideas come from all over, but as I write more and more, I find I'm always hunting for mood: I want to write a novel with a pervasive mood that sticks with you after you close the cover.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Mood

• I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Never
  • Had
  • Agent

• The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Day
  • Years
  • First

• Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.

  

  Hank Ballard
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Rock

• Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Action
  • Little
  • Shooting

• It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Political
  • Stop
  • Military

• What do we actually seek from food? It's not calories, nor is it volume or mass. It is, in fact, nutrition: micronutrients, which include vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytochemicals. These are components by which food can be assessed a value, and therefore, a decision can be objectively made as to whether it's worth eating.

  

  Brendan Brazier
  • Food
  • Decision
  • Calories

• In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Different
  • America
  • Today

• If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Ifs
  • Customers
  • Diamond

• What is better than to love and live with the loved? – But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.

  

  George Eliot
  • Love
  • Dead
  • Tranquil

• Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Power
  • Night
  • Goal

• A long mission was ahead of them, and no one wanted to get on anyone else's nerves with unnecessary chatter.

  

  Allen Steele
  • Mission
  • Nerves
  • Chatter