Garth Greenwell Quotes

Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.

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• Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Wisdom
  • Moral
  • Practical

• I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Sun
  • Story
  • Sky

• I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Home
  • Learn

• I acted my heart out.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Heart
  • Out
  • Acted

• Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • Power
  • Giving

• Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Hand
  • Marriage
  • Old

• One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Future
  • Young
  • India

• 'Ten Year' was probably - I might say 'Ten Year' was my favorite filming experience of anything I ever worked on. It was totally different from 'Moneyball' in that it was a small budget, independent movie. It had a giant ensemble of actors, all of whom were basically working for free.

  

  Chris Pratt
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Movie

• I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

  

  Mary Boykin Chesnut
  • Breathe

• Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

  

  Christine Todd Whitman
  • Small
  • Fall

• That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Gift
  • Prevent
  • Be Aware

• What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

  

  Charles Dudley Warner

• Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

  

  Frank Muir
  • Solitude

• Burberry was about building a relationship. But it was always about selling an amazing product that you would have forever. Apple is just a deeper relationship with a much broader constituency. Because it's everybody.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Relationship
  • Amazing
  • Forever

• A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Good
  • Great
  • Book

• I may get married later or may never get married. But I want babies, so I'll have to get married. I want fat, cute babies. Every girl has to think about it at some point. For me, marriage is about family, and that's why I find it necessary. Till then, it's normal to have a partner and do your own thing.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • Family
  • Why
  • May

• In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.

  

  David Attenborough
  • History
  • Opinion

• One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Wife
  • Firsts
  • Cat

• Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.

  

  David Korten
  • Money

• I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

  

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf
  • Up
  • God
  • Mind

• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Mind
  • Explain
  • Animation

• When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Interests
  • Govern

• Even though I don't sing any more, singing was my first education in the arts, and it's clear to me that my training as a musician also shaped me as a writer.

  

  Garth Greenwell
  • Training
  • Firsts
  • Musician