V. S. Pritchett Quotes
The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.
V. S. Pritchett
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I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.
Vijender Singh
I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
Ed Westwick
About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
W. Bruce Cameron
When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.
Ted Allen
Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
Irwin Shaw
It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
Oprah Winfrey
No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
Harold Hamm
I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
Laura Bell Bundy
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.
Irwin Shaw
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
Taslima Nasrin
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Candice Bergen
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
Dana Spiotta
My real life was when I was just a working guy. You know, it's OK to head out for Wonderful. But on your way to Wonderful, you're gonna have to pass through All Right. And when you get to All Right, take a good look around, and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.
Bill Withers
For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.
Alan Furst
Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.
Rachel Grace Held
Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
Babe Ruth
When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.
V. S. Pritchett
