Catherine Gilbert Murdock Quotes

Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on." "Then why bother playing?" I asked. It was a whisper, this question. "Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right . . . I dunno. Why do you play?" "Because," I whispered, "it's who I am." Sounds like a good reason to me.

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

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• Reason
• Sleep
• Sometimes
• Winning
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• We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Nature
  • Career
  • Adversity

• I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Civilization
  • Felt
  • Poison

• I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Watch
  • Him
  • Watched

• There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Space
  • Before
  • Space Program

• I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Life
  • Time
  • Reading

• Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Look

• I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Alone

• I write emotional music.

  

  Les Baxter
  • Music
  • Emotional

• It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.

  

  Bruce Forsyth
  • Up
  • Time
  • Exercise

• Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • Believe
  • Different

• I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

  

  Charles Saatchi
  • Theatre

• What does it really mean to have something change in you very late in your life, after you've structured your life in a different way? What does it mean to be someone who has had a history of sometimes reckless living, and then to really want to change yourself?

  

  Debra Granik
  • Life
  • Different
  • History

• There are definitely strictly independent movies. 'Gummo' is one. Another is one I made, 'Fresh,' a $3 million movie which Boaz Yakin directed.

  

  Lawrence Bender
  • Movie
  • Independent

• You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in.

  

  David R. Ellis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

  

  Carol Shields
  • Mother

• Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Morning
  • Idea
  • Paper

• I love to read things that have moral messages, and I love to hear stories where it's not just a hook, you have to follow the story, you have to listen to the message of the song, and get it and use it in your everyday life.

  

  Valerie June
  • Life
  • Song
  • Moral

• The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Book
  • Mess
  • Editor

• The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit.

  

  Iamblichus
  • Special
  • Perfection
  • Numbers

• The entire truth about everything can be known through your vibratory awareness. And this vibratory awareness comes to you through your attention, which is enlightened by your Spirit.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• The Digital Millennium Copyright Act indemnifies Internet Service Providers (ISP) such as Harvard from copyright abuses committed over their computer networks.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • Service

• Everyone's scared. So scared they can't sleep sometimes. Or eat. Or keep their weight on." "Then why bother playing?" I asked. It was a whisper, this question. "Because. You love the game. You love the people you play with. You love winning, maybe. You love that one moment when you get it right . . . I dunno. Why do you play?" "Because," I whispered, "it's who I am." Sounds like a good reason to me.

  

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock
  • Moments
  • Reason
  • Sleep