Austin Kleon Quotes

Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.

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• Archery requires very sensitive muscles.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Very
  • Sensitive
  • Muscles

• People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Like
  • Special

• Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Value
  • Nothing
  • Without

• Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Real
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Success
  • Action

• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Children
  • Kids

• I don't like to play the victim.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Play
  • Like
  • Victim

• Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.

  

  Sam Weller
  • House
  • Small
  • California

• Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • You
  • Opportunity
  • Peace

• I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • People
  • God
  • Think

• Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Remember
  • Help

• It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Company
  • Will
  • Useful

• I keep saying, the older I get, the younger my audience gets. Because 'Wicked' and 'Rent' and 'Glee,' each one was a young audience, so it's a great thing to have, so then you know that as they get older and have kids, they'll maybe still buy tickets to my shows when I'm 80 and in Vegas!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Know

• You do learn how to cope from those who are coping.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Animal

• I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Morning
  • Listening
  • Summer

• The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Men

• I never trust anything that can be captured in 2 takes.

  

  Eleanor Tomlinson
  • Trust

• America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• She wanted to crawl into his arms and be soothed, and soothe him in return, and forget all the grand ideas she’d ever had about true love, and the necessity for it. Because true love was a load of baloney. Finding a good friend...a good friend who trusted you...was more than enough.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Good
  • She
  • True

• Every morning when I pick up the newspaper and read about an earthquake in Japan or problems in European financial institutions, the first question I ask our staff is 'What is money-market-fund exposure?'

  

  Mary Schapiro
  • Up
  • Money
  • Question

• Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.

  

  Will Hobbs
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Happened

• Writing a page a day doesn't seem like much, but do it for 365 days and you have enough to fill a novel.

  

  Austin Kleon
  • Writing
  • Novel
  • Page