Colleen Hoover Quotes

When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an outline. I didn't do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going.

Colleen Hoover

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• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Direction

• My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • History
  • Reading
  • Philosophy

• I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.

  

  Victor Mature
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Live

• I hardly ever go to the movies.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Movies
  • Go
  • Ever

• I'd rather entertain people than offend them.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Rather
  • Offend

• I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Will
  • Read
  • Reviews

• An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Culture
  • Enemy
  • Army

• In high school, I used to draw on my arms with a Sharpie. I knew I was gonna have a lot of tattoos. I'm not exactly classified as an artist, so my drawings could only go so far as I could take 'em. Now my tats are all a story: There's not one I can remember where I got a tat just to get a tat. It's all a part of me. I don't think I'm finished yet.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • School
  • Remember
  • High

• Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Life
  • Business
  • Loved

• I'm a beauty guru, I just love all of that stuff. We have a makeup artist for 'Dance Moms' that touches us up and stuff, but I love doing my own makeup; sometimes I do my friends', too. My favorite is doing eye shadow and eyeliner.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Up
  • Love
  • Friends

• The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and concert band did well in county competitions, and the dance band formed by its students was the best in the region. I played lead trumpet in all of them.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• Most of the time I got a ticket, I deserved it. I knew why I was pulled over. But there were times when I didn’t. The data shows that this is not an aberration. It doesn’t mean each case is a problem. It means that when you aggregate all the cases and you look at it, you’ve gotta say that there’s some racial bias in the system.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Why

• Imagine a weight-loss program at the end of which, instead of better health, good looks, and hot romantic prospects, you die. Somalia had become just this kind of spa.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Die
  • Health

• Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• Georg Cantor claimed the essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. But mathematicians do not pick problems from thin air for the pleasure of solving them. To the contrary, a mark of greatness resides in the ability to identify the most interesting problems in the framework of what is already known.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Freedom
  • Interesting
  • Air

• Principal Skinner's kitchen catches on fire in the middle of dinner with Superintendant Chalmers

  

  Aurora
  • Fire
  • Kitchen

• Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Criticism
  • Sympathy
  • Universities

• No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Value
  • Opinion

• People like Donald Trump, who paid zero in taxes, zero for our vets, zero for our military, zero for health and education, that is wrong.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Education
  • Health

• When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an outline. I didn't do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going.

  

  Colleen Hoover