Ann Patchett Quotes

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

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• We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Building
  • Determination
  • Confused

• If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Strange

• My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • God
  • Day
  • Mom

• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Best
  • Three

• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Needs
  • According
  • His

• On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Character
  • Job
  • Feeling

• I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Support

• If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Friend

• There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Media
  • Now

• I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything.

  

  Washed Out
  • Sound
  • Everything
  • Delay

• The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • World
  • Political
  • Serious

• For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Change
  • Environment
  • Never

• We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Moving
  • Two
  • Japanese

• The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Best
  • Too Much
  • Plants

• I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • You
  • Simple
  • Faithful

• We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Hands
  • Forget
  • Blood

• The fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to the fact that racism is socially inadmissible.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Racism

• I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

  

  David Brainerd
  • God
  • Thankful
  • Retirement

• 'Regression testing'? What's that? If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Up
  • Good
  • Perfect

• If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Know
  • Punishment

• Don't say the name! I don't ever want to know!" But what Amy was really saying was, I want to blame you, and only you. I want to punish you all the rest of your life, and only you.

  

  Olga Masters
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Punish

• Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

  

  Ann Patchett
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