Charles de Lint Quotes

If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.

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• I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • Theater
  • Direct

• Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Future
  • Environment
  • Problems

• My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Husband
  • Enjoy
  • Season

• Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Goal
  • Definitely
  • Sell

• I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Know
  • Cancer
  • Lung

• I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Book
  • Write
  • Fans

• During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Church
  • Singing
  • London

• As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Hate
  • Listen

• I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Down
  • Kid
  • WIld

• The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Happiness
  • Prison
  • Utopia

• My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Cleaning

• Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Success
  • Growing
  • Yourself

• Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Business
  • Ethics
  • Strategy

• The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Job
  • Youth
  • Teen

• Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Sick

• I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.

  

  Edith Head
  • Star
  • See
  • Animals

• Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Way
  • You
  • Repetition

• One should expect that the expected can be prevented, but the unexpected should have been expected.

  

  Norman R. Augustine
  • Expect
  • Expected
  • Prevent

• The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Language
  • Questions
  • Someone

• If somebody knows me, they know for sure I'm from Poland because I'm playing for my country every tournament, every match. I'm staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there.

  

  Agnieszka Radwanska
  • Good
  • Country
  • Home

• I intend to work until the day I die. I retired from feature-length films but not from animation. Self-indulgent animation. It's nice that I have the mini-theater in the museum. Most of the museum visitors attend the mini-theater screenings and we've never had a complaint about the quality of the films. I'd like to continue to make films that leave the audience satisfied, but I also think it's pointless unless I offer them the kind of animation they can't get anywhere else. They're fun to do. They're short so it's less stressful.

  

  Hayao Miyazaki
  • Fun
  • Nice
  • Kind

• Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Everything
  • Fat
  • Almost

• If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are.

  

  Charles de Lint