Kelley Armstrong Quotes

I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

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• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Men
  • Women
  • Employees

• There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Enough

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Mother
  • Mom

• I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Hate
  • Parks

• Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.

  

  Larry Craig
  • People
  • Political
  • Flag

• I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Loved
  • Favourite
  • Fabulous

• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • America
  • War

• There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Civilization
  • Theater
  • Were

• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Perfect

• You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Words
  • Movies
  • Other

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.

  

  Man Ray
  • Power
  • Genius
  • His

• Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • Know
  • Alone

• Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.

  

  Bill Frist
  • Words
  • Powerful
  • Retirement

• Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Suppose
  • Flattered
  • Good Deal

• The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• Regardless of the medium, be it television or feature or documentary, I'm not gonna distinguish and worry about my particular canon, whatever that means.

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • Worry

• I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Experience
  • Picture
  • Independent

• I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.

  

  Kelley Armstrong
  • Worry