Pat Conroy Quotes

I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

Pat Conroy

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• I'm about a 160, 170 bowler so I feel like I'm pretty good - I'm average, but I don't stink, you know?

  

  Warren Moon
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Know

• My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.

  

  Gary McCord
  • School
  • High
  • Magic

• The realities are, there are - you can be entertaining and you can be fun, and you can say things that actually appeal to people. You still have to figure out a way to get to 270 electoral votes. Get votes in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Fun
  • You

• I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

  

  Larry David
  • Like
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Job
  • Experience
  • High

• Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Great
  • Will
  • Because

• The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Serious
  • Journalism

• Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Heart
  • Growth
  • Economy

• The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Wish

• I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Work
  • Singing
  • Hard Work

• Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • High
  • You
  • Brain

• With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Want
  • Know

• I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• I don't envy young actors.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Young
  • Envy
  • Young Actors

• Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Body

• There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Garden

• I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.

  

  Babyface
  • Done
  • You
  • Kind

• I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • Moving
  • Acting
  • Expect

• I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: - the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, - the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little.

  

  John Ruskin
  • People
  • Men
  • History

• I'm most proud of my family.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Family
  • Proud

• Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Me
  • Rock
  • Star

• I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

  

  Pat Conroy
  • God
  • School
  • Me