Lawrence Block Quotes
I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.Lawrence Block
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
Pat Benatar -
True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
Harold Brodkey -
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
Sade Adu -
When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.
Walter Mosley -
Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it.
Karisma Kapoor
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
Aaron Paul -
Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
Garcelle Beauvais -
I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.
Randy Johnson -
I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.
Olivia Thirlby -
I thought I had gotten second, but I didn't, so I was really happy.
Carly Patterson -
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.
Namie Amuro -
Of Lord Chesterfield This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
Samuel Johnson -
In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British Museum: why, she asks, are there so many books written by men about women but none by women about men? The answer to her question is that from the beginning of time men have been struggling with the threat of woman's dominance.
Camille Paglia -
Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat.
C. S. Lewis -
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
Alfred North Whitehead -
My vision is to make Seoul the center of East Asia in terms of economy, culture and tourism.
Chung Mong-joon
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I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.
Carla Gugino -
I was a bad kid. I say this without pride but with a feeling that it is better to say it. I live with one great hope: to help kids who now stand where I stood as a boy. If what I have to say here helps even one of them avoid some of my own mistakes, or take heart from such triumphs as I have had, this book will serve its purpose.
Babe Ruth -
Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
Harold Hamm -
Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.
Felicia Day -
I guess I can be surprised I'm alive. I'm taking a little better care of myself than when I was a young person. My father died when he was 63. My mother made it to 74. My grandparents, God, they were dropping like flies.
Loudon Wainwright III -
I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.
Lawrence Block