Davy Rothbart Quotes

There’s no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.

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• Going to the Super Bowl is not the reward. It's playing really well and winning.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Winning
  • Reward
  • Super Bowl

• I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Act

• Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Trying
  • Days
  • Ironic

• I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Change

• I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Want
  • Change
  • Same

• There are great challenges before you, from the overwhelming nature of climate change to the unfairness of an economy that excludes so many from our collective wealth, and the changes necessary to build a more inclusive and generous Canada. I believe in you.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Nature

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

  

  Vicki Delany
  • Human
  • Said
  • Pressure

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Funny
  • Worth
  • Dime

• Vitia erunt donec homines

  

  Tacitus

• All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Heaven
  • Practice
  • Kindness

• To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

  

  Cornel West
  • Truth
  • Suffering

• To understand the universe in the state that it began in, the so-called Big Bang, we need laws of physics that work better than our current set of rules and procedures, which break down when we try to push them back to the beginning.

  

  David Gross
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Beginning

• I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.

  

  Antonya Nelson
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Commitment

• I have one rule when adapting any text: nothing gets added; all the words are the original author's own. But in the ordering and recreation of the story, I can do as I please, and to me, the heart and the point of 'Dracula' is appetite.

  

  Kathe Koja
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Author

• Last but not least, she put on a pair of black-framed reading glasses she’d found on Mr. Mercer’s bedside table. If it worked for Clark Kent, it’d work for her.

  

  Sara Shepard
  • Worked
  • Glasses

• Physical beings want things to be the same. They want people to think the same. You work rather hard at sameness, but you will never win that battle because, from Nonphysical, diversity is known to be the most beneficial part of the game.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Games
  • Diversity
  • Battle

• When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kind of negative about everything.

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • Done
  • Kind
  • Negative

• I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

  

  Dan Devine
  • Going
  • Head
  • Coach

• Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • May
  • Die
  • Trees

• There’s no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens.

  

  Davy Rothbart
  • Universe
  • Happens
  • Going