Damon Knight Quotes

'It's a cookbook!'

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• Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Age
  • Need
  • Solidarity

• Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Soul
  • Death
  • Body

• I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Night

• I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Progress
  • Acting

• The job as a coach is difficult.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Job
  • Difficult
  • Coach

• The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Fun
  • Way
  • Me

• How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to do with the iPad back in 2010. If you believe he was out to make a bigger smartphone or to entirely replace the Mac and PC, you're wrong.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Company

• Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Sports

• Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Action
  • Enemy
  • Coincidence

• You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Up
  • You
  • See

• I have yet to meet members of a leadership team who I thought lacked the intelligence or the domain expertise required to be successful. I've met many, however, who failed to foster organizational health. Their companies were riddled with politics, various forms of dysfunction, and general confusion about their direction and mission.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Team
  • Health
  • Politics

• Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Work
  • Soul

• Niggers was the ones with the rope, hanging off trees; Niggas are the ones with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Rope
  • Hanging Out
  • Niggers

• We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

  

  Amy Goodman
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• To commit a successful murder must be very much like bringing off a conjuring trick.

  

  Agatha Christie

• In vain she told herself that he was unworthy any woman's trust and love, still the unconquerable sentiment that once made her happiness now remained to become her torment.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • She
  • Trust

• When I started, there weren't any arenas. There was football fields, but they would only hold three or four or five hundred people at the most... We played a lot of high school auditoriums and things like that - a lot of churches... but boy, it has changed.

  

  Jim Ed Brown
  • People
  • School
  • High

• When I started singing, I was covering Lauryn Hill, Brandy, and all the girl groups of the '90s. It's just what I would listen to and what I was singing when anybody asked me to sing for them.

  

  Kehlani
  • Girl
  • Singing

• My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.

  

  Dean Cain
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Pretty

• I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty.

  

  Primo Levi

• It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Time
  • Art
  • Quality

• I work all the time; whatever I do, I do it, and I don't necessarily look at it as work. You could say the Auschwitz project was work, or the Lowy Institute is work, or Westfield is work, or the football is work. It is life.

  

  Frank Lowy
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• 'It's a cookbook!'

  

  Damon Knight