Laurie R. King Quotes

Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.

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• I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Like
  • Afraid
  • Someone

• Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Law

• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Words
  • Attention
  • Behavior

• A man really determines himself by what he does.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Man
  • Really
  • Himself

• Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Die
  • Brother

• My son will be an American, but I remain French.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • American
  • Son
  • Will

• Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Men
  • Body
  • Down

• Liberation is not deliverance.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Freedom
  • Liberation

• Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • School
  • High

• Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Power
  • True

• To me, the money is – it's certainly a wonderful thing. But it is in direct proportion to how you're able to bless yourself and bless others with it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Money
  • Wonderful
  • Bless

• Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Thinking
  • Power
  • Future

• A man who doesn’t detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• 'My darling one....I shall be thinking of you while you are away and hope you will remember to wrap up warm when you go out at night.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Stolen sweets are always sweeter,Stolen kisses much completer,Stolen looks are nice in chapels,Stolen, stolen, be your apples.

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • Nice

• Friends don't let friends use gcc '-W'.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Friends

• Cuando creo que la piedra es piedra, que la nube es nube, me hallo es un estado de inconsciencia.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Culture
  • Giving
  • Violence

• You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Funny
  • Relationship
  • City

• My wedding dress is a piece of art that I'll treasure forever. It was designed and created by Zac Posen. I gave him only the tiniest bit of direction when he started, and the end product was more beautiful than anything I could have imagined.

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Forever

• I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Child

• I mostly don't submit to talking about my work because I would like another talk about real life.

  

  Leos Carax
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Joy
  • Things
  • Gains

• Whenever I go to England, I'm on pilgrimage. I walk the countryside around Eastbourne because that's where Sherlock Holmes retired.

  

  Laurie R. King