Diana Krall Quotes

I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.

Diana Krall

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• Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Book
  • Reading

• The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Earth

• I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

  

  Wendell Wilkie
  • Know
  • Day
  • Lose

• I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Golf

• If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Time
  • Dad
  • Sports

• My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • End
  • Distance
  • Encouragement

• I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Feel
  • Belong

• I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Know
  • Story
  • Actors

• I think it's because my comedy is in your face, and it comes from a place that's real.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Real
  • Think
  • Comedy

• Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Friendship
  • Companion

• There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Man
  • Napoleon

• I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • May
  • Brother
  • Sister

• We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Trying
  • Energy
  • Understanding

• I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Things
  • Popular
  • Head

• Kant ... discovered 'the scandal of reason,' that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters and questions that it nevertheless cannot help thinking about.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Help

• Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted. :(

  

  Kate DiCamillo

• A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Nature

• I don't want to know what the future will be. I want to live it.

  

  Elisa Sednaoui
  • Live
  • Future
  • Don't Want

• It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.

  

  Daniel Johns Silverchair
  • Rely

• I have this colored friend Betty well, I never thought about it one way or the other until one day I went over her house for the first time and her father opened the door and I was surprized to see he was colored. Because, to me I was so used to her she always looked normal.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Father
  • Friend
  • Surprized

• Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.

  

  Ramana Maharshi

• We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Stop
  • Going Up

• I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.

  

  Diana Krall