Randall Jarrell Quotes
How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?Randall Jarrell
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My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.
Kate Thompson -
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter -
I have the mentality of a winner. I first went to the Olympic Games when I was 17, three weeks after my O-levels, and I remember sitting in a dining-hall filled with the world's best athletes.
Daley Thompson -
My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
Kate Christensen -
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
Abbas Kiarostami -
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
Nancy Pelosi
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
Jack Horner -
I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
Ziggy Marley -
We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
Calvin Johnson -
It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
Ted Cruz -
If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
Vanessa Hudgens -
I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.
Zhu Rongji
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu -
I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
Ralph Thomas Walker -
I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
Laura Schlessinger -
We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
Maeve Binchy -
One day, I want to make a PG film.
Jackie Chan -
We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.
Karen Mills
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I was a professor for 20 years, 12 of those at Emory University.
Kevin Young -
To keep your he-man jaw muscles from smashing your precious teeth, the only set you have, the body evolved an automated braking system faster and more sophisticated than anything on a Lexus. The jaw knows its own strength. The faster and more recklessly you close your mouth, the less force the muscles are willing to apply.
Mary Roach -
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
John le Carre -
Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.
Paul Bloom -
How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel?
Randall Jarrell