Jack London Quotes

It was patent that this terrible man was no ignorant clod, such as one would inevitably suppose him to be from his exhibitions of brutality. At once he became an enigma.

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• I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Lucky
  • Kid
  • Just

• I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Tired
  • Amazed
  • Runners

• My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Me
  • Always
  • Things

• The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Sex
  • Older Women

• People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Good
  • Home

• On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Men
  • Opinion
  • Low

• 'It is easy to judge evil unmixed,' replied Gwydion. 'But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Evil

• The deep in me is everything. But it is everything without me. Because everything that is deep, is only everything.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Deep

• Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor and rich people alike.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Poverty

• I went to L.A. to be a drummer in a band.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • Band

• Some critics say I spent too much time on politics. I don't put much stock in the critics.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Time
  • Stock

• There's a long relationship between science fiction and the 'novel of ideas,' and I think writers of science fiction are able to draw on that tradition to take risks, to constantly raise the level of their ambition.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • Long
  • Science
  • Relationship

• Scripts that make characters a two-sentence description, I'm not interested in.

  

  Dylan Sprouse

• Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Real
  • Football
  • Baseball

• Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel cubicles, we sit cozy as kings atop 300 years of flaming carbon.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Air

• When American troops find themselves fighting for their lives, there is no better sound than an A-10 - a plane officially nicknamed the Thunderbolt II but known affectionately by the troops as the Warthog - firing its enormous 30-millimeter gun at the enemy.

  

  Martha McSally
  • American
  • Fighting
  • Enemy

• Small ball, spacing, shooting 3s, is something that everybody's trying to do.

  

  J. B. Bickerstaff
  • Trying
  • Small

• I write first drafts by hand, often out of the house somewhere, and then, when I've got a draft, type it up and let it sit, sometimes for a long time, and then when I'm ready, I work on revision.

  

  David Means
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Long
  • Night

• A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Character
  • True
  • Violence

• The spiteful tongue strikes a deadly blow at charity in all who hear him speak and, so far as it can, destroys root and branch, not only in the immediate hearers but also in all others to whom the slander, flying from lip to lip, is afterwards repeated.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Charity
  • Destroys
  • Afterwards

• It was patent that this terrible man was no ignorant clod, such as one would inevitably suppose him to be from his exhibitions of brutality. At once he became an enigma.

  

  Jack London