Edward M. Lerner Quotes

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.

Edward M. Lerner

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• I have lived a carnal life.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Life
  • Lived
  • Carnal

• When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Dream
  • Sometimes
  • Better

• The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Habit
  • Stand
  • Cow

• I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Character
  • Never
  • Research

• Know your target audience. Always keep them at the forefront of your mind. Understand their lifestyle and what they are looking for. Gather their feedback and use it to tailor your approach. The voice of the consumer is an essential input into the development of any fashion business or blog.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Fashion

• I'm trying to do big things. It doesn't matter whether it's on the field or off the field.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Trying
  • Matter
  • Big

• You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Opportunities

• People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Guy
  • Day

• I don't care if the audience is 600 Saul Bellows; I'm going to knock them dead with a comedy routine. I'm out there as a missionary for literature because, if people laugh and enjoy themselves, they might actually do something as bizarre as reading the book.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • People
  • Book
  • Reading

• The more pressure you bring from without, the less internal pressure is necessary.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • You
  • Pressure
  • Without

• People say McGregor is tall and all that. He's as tall as I am, or maybe even shorter. He might have a longer reach, but I've fought Nate Diaz and Cerrone, who had reach advantage, and fought Anthony Pettis and Ben Henderson.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Advantage
  • Reach
  • Fought

• It was a dramatization of total chaos, a functional definition of confusion, an unchoreographed dance of sad violence. It was war.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • War
  • Violence
  • Dance

• The most frequent way men are raped by adult women is 'birth control rape.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Control

• 'In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.'-Learning To Sing, Page 240

  

  Clay Aiken
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Supposed former infatuation junkie, I sink three pointers and you wax poetically.

  

  Alanis Morissette

• I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in.

  

  Donald Norman
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Technology

• I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Good
  • Great
  • Small

• It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Singing

• When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.

  

  Drew Houston
  • World
  • Real
  • School

• I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.

  

  Peter Benchley

• My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the left-overs from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Preparation

• 'The Simpsons' is like Charlie Parker or Marlon Brando or Richard Pryor: Comedy couldn't go back to the way it was after 'The Simpsons' came out.

  

  Eric Andre
  • Comedy

• That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

  

  William Irwin Thompson
  • Knowing
  • Landscape
  • Myth

• Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.

  

  Edward M. Lerner