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

• The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Culture
  • Fields

• I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Firsts
  • Cities
  • Museums

• I had been doing all my school plays, elementary school, middle school, and high school, and then summer. I'd wanted to act for a long time, and I thought I was going to go to college and do theater, go that route. But 'Superbad' kind of fell on my lap. I was very, very lucky for that.

  

  Christopher Mintz-Plasse
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'

  

  Candice Accola
  • People
  • Right
  • Read

• Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

  

  George Eliot
  • Create
  • Mankind
  • Philosophers

• 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