Bill Konigsberg Quotes

I shivered. Careful, I told myself. You don't want to set yourself up for a fall. Be happy. Just not too happy.

Bill Konigsberg

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• I'm happier on the runway than I am on the red carpet. Because then I am not being myself. I think, on the red carpet, it's a weird, like, 'Who am I? Am I me? Am I them?'

  

  Kate Moss
  • Happy
  • Red
  • Carpet

• I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Simple

• I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Political

• Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Fall
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

  

  O. Henry
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Old

• I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

  

  Nas
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Long
  • True

• The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • I Can
  • Be Happy

• I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Friends
  • Happy
  • See

• I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Reason

• I hope we will be able to have a happy family ourselves.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Hope

• We needed to make a sound that's not gonna fit in with everything else - we wanted to make something that was completely unique and individual to us. We spent a lot of time trying to make a sound that was a One Direction sound. At first it was quite hard to do that, but I'm really happy with the sound.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Happy

• In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • May
  • Fall

• That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Different
  • Done
  • Running

• I am very happy with what I see. The grey, the not-so grey and the camouflaged That's life. One has to live with it.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Life
  • Live
  • Happy

• He wants to dream like a young manWith the wisdom of an old man.He wants his home and security,He wants to live like a sailor at sea.Beautiful loser, where you gonna fall?You realize you just can't have it all.

  

  Bob Seger
  • Live
  • Home
  • Beautiful

• I think we're past the time in history where you have to come out and say, 'you know I'm just happy all the time! I'm a joker, I'm a crazy man!' you know kind of thing. I think people understand I can turn that switch on but I'm also a sensitive, normal human being with feelings and I know how to express those too.

  

  Jim Carrey
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

  

  David Eddings
  • Happy

• I'm quite discreet. I think I'd rather focus on my work. So, I only speak when I have something to say. 'Live hidden, and live happy.' Is that the same in English as it is in French?

  

  Delphine Arnault
  • Work
  • Live
  • Happy

• If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.

  

  Leonard Bacon
  • Government
  • Slavery
  • Social

• When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

  

  Chandra Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• When you live in America, it's kind of insular - the news coverage that you get - unless you're really smart about it and find more international news coverage. I've learned that from my husband. In the French culture, they talk politics.

  

  Kim Raver
  • Live
  • America
  • Culture

• I shivered. Careful, I told myself. You don't want to set yourself up for a fall. Be happy. Just not too happy.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Happy
  • Fall
  • Shivered