Lisa Gardner Quotes

All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.

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• Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • You
  • Change
  • Growth

• Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Listen
  • News

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Thought
  • Unique
  • Speak

• I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Chance

• Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Human Body

• I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Everyday

• My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Prayer
  • Sand

• Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • People
  • Think
  • Understand

• These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Technology

• The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Power
  • Way
  • Enough

• Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Religion
  • Search

• Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Men
  • Love
  • Independence

• I used to play shows in D.C. and then drive back to New York to work at 6 A.M. So there are those moments, and you just really need to power through them. Eventually, it builds on itself.

  

  Verite
  • Work
  • Power
  • Moments

• But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Good
  • Government
  • Ideas

• They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Children
  • Will

• Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • You
  • Feel
  • Unpredictable

• So when you go to a set and you just fully trust everybody, you know how hard everybody's working, you know that the people doing it are good and have such a strong vision - that's exactly my experience on 'New Girl,' and what my experience on 'Veronica Mars' was like. Everybody was just so great.

  

  Max Greenfield
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I've done, like, eight pilots, and every time, everyone thinks it's going to go for 10 years.

  

  David Denman
  • Time
  • Done

• I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Me
  • Film
  • Magic

• In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.

  

  David Shields
  • Writing
  • Beginning

• Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

  

  Ray Davies The Kinks
  • Money
  • Tired

• All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado.

  

  Lisa Gardner
  • People
  • Done