J. J. Abrams Quotes

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

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• Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • People
  • Experience
  • Scratch

• I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • See
  • Books
  • Fabulous

• Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Up
  • Time
  • Small

• My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Virtue
  • Function
  • Within

• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • May
  • Business

• I have not intended to denigrate or hurt the beliefs of anyone through my art.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • Art
  • Hurt
  • Beliefs

• What is history but a fable agreed upon?

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Agreed
  • Fable

• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Years
  • Fiction
  • Maybe

• We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Want

• I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Way
  • Always
  • Behind

• I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Country
  • Want

• I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Writing
  • Reader

• Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • America
  • Society
  • Political

• Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Liberty

• Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.

  

  Kaja Foglio
  • People
  • Job
  • Day

• Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society - like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Good
  • Society
  • Good Times

• If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • People
  • Thinking
  • May

• I always try to write the best I can.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Best
  • Try
  • I Can

• It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey.

  

  David Edwards
  • People

• I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Strong
  • Sometimes
  • Try