Ken Follett Quotes

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

Ken Follett

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• I would love to do some theater.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Some

• When I'm a bit sad, I often go for a drive in the country, quite fast with my music up.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Music
  • Country

• Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Depression
  • Loss
  • Insomnia

• You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Good
  • Men

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.

  

  Larry David
  • Happy
  • Right
  • OK

• I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Business
  • America
  • Never

• I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Home
  • Try
  • Kitchen

• I'm a jeans person; I love Abercrombie. My shoe collection is composed mostly of Chucks and a few pairs of girly ones.

  

  Lalaine Vergara-Paras
  • Love
  • Jeans
  • Girly

• Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.

  

  Nancy Banks Smith
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• As a man, it is true that I will never know what it is like to be a woman. As an organizational psychologist, though, I feel a responsibility to bring evidence to bear on dynamics of work life that affect all of us, not only half of us.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Life
  • Work
  • True

• We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• I always feel like I wasn't the best trainer, because I'm really good at teaching people stuff, but I'm not good if people aren't super psyched - if they're not like me.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Good
  • Best

• In 'Billy Madison,' I worked with Adam before anyone really knew he was Adam Sandler.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Worked
  • Adam
  • Billy

• 'Abu Ghraib is unbelievable in the innocent times of 1961. That we would torture people that way and on the instructions of the President of the United States and his highest legal advisers, torture is okay, they said. Go for it, fellas. If we can't renounce that and remove it from office, then the Constitution doesn't work anymore.'

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • People
  • Work
  • Innocent

• '...reality’s always dull, you know...'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Reality

• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Peace

• The young boy whistles, hurrying down the street,The young girl hums beneath her breath.One goes out to beauty, and does not know it.And one goes out to death.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Death
  • Girl
  • Boy

• We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

  

  Charles A. Murray
  • Government
  • Humans

• No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.

  

  Liberty Hyde Bailey
  • World
  • Earth

• It just comes out of my subconscious. If you asked me to draw you a doodle, I couldn't do it.

  

  Lois Frankel

• The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe.

  

  John Conyers
  • American

• I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

  

  Ken Follett