George W. Buck Quotes

The universe is a really interesting place. I couldn't live anywhere else.

George W. Buck

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• I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Everything
  • Once

• I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.

  

  Edmund White
  • Think
  • Death
  • Dying

• Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

  

  Quintilian
  • Late
  • Begin
  • Too Late

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Support
  • Government
  • Period

• Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.

  

  Vicki Delany
  • Human
  • Said
  • Pressure

• Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Life
  • Time
  • Today

• I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Different
  • Business
  • Think

• To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Effort

• I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • World
  • Work
  • Book

• I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Like
  • Unhappy
  • Thirsty

• Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Attention
  • Boys
  • Dating

• I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Always
  • Idea
  • Interested

• I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Seattle
  • Diehard
  • Seahawks

• Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Important
  • Family
  • Funny

• It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'

  

  Athenaeus
  • Men
  • Lost

• There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Bad

• If we can spend over $3 trillion on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, surely we can find the money to meet the long-term needs of our people.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • People
  • Long
  • Money

• Every mind is a clutter of memories, images, inventions and age-old repetitions. It can be a ghetto, too, if a ghetto is a sealed-off, confined place. Or a sanctuary, where one is free to dream and think whatever one wants. For most of us it's both - and a lot more complicated.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Dream

• If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Know
  • Like
  • Playing

• I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may have a bright side...

  

  Ned Kelly
  • Life
  • Side
  • Bright

• We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Nature
  • Universe
  • Understanding

• I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

  

  David Coverdale Whitesnake
  • Time
  • Live
  • Remember

• The universe is a really interesting place. I couldn't live anywhere else.

  

  George W. Buck
  • Live
  • Universe
  • Place