David Grossman Quotes
I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.
David Grossman
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
Vera Wang
It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.
Owen Hart
People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
Karin Slaughter
At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?
Talib Kweli
Black Star
Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.
Dan Simmons
I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
Anand Giridharadas
My belief in God is that God wants you. God wants you to believe in him, or it, whatever you would call it.
Jason Segel
Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.
Chris Noth
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
Moliere
A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time is pluralism. Can people from different backgrounds live together in mutual peace and loyalty? And what we need is a generation of young social entrepreneurs who know how to make that great idea reality in an historical moment where religious extremists are, frankly, making their idea reality.
Eboo Patel
I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.
David Grossman