Jim Carroll Quotes

It's always been the same, growing up in Manhattan... the idea of living within a giant archer's target... for use by the bad Russia bowman with the atomic arrows.

Jim Carroll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 1, 1949 - September 11, 2009

Topics

Growing UpBadTargetGrowingLiving

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

John Burroughs

PathLearnYouYesterdayNewTake

A Hillary Clinton presidency would have represented an important step away from the country's lagging acceptance of women as powerful, full participants in our democracy.

Mel Robbins

WomenAcceptanceStepDemocracyAway

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.

Amin Maalouf

SonI AmCityMeRoadCountry

The Japanese press likes me a lot, but the problem is the Japanese government. It's very bureaucratic.

Shuji Nakamura

GovernmentMeProblemJapanesePress

I think theater will always be my first love. I've been doing it since I was nine, and there's nothing quite like being on stage, having the immediate intake of energy and exchange of ideas.

Tracie Thoms

LoveIdeasEnergyThinkDoingWill

The scariest part to any story is the sliver of truth you hide in the horror. Sometimes its not about the axe wielding murder, but the fact that he's lurking somewhere in your basement. Sure, you keep telling yourself that you'll replace the burnt out light every week.

Rob Manuel

TruthLightYourselfStoryWeekYou

People often ask me how I feel about my invention being used to kill people every day and the AK being a common weapon of ethnic conflicts. I want to make it clear that I created my assault rifle to protect my country. You can blame politicians for its spreading out of control on a global scale.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

DayPeopleMeBlameControlYou

I would love to keep directing commercials. I love it so much. I love working with brands and ad agencies and old white men who have been doing this for 60 years.

Milana Vayntrub

LoveMenDoingWhiteOldYears

It was really inspiring to be in West London in the late 1980s and early 1990s, especially in Mark Lebon's Crunch Studios, where I met people like Ray Petri, Neneh Cherry, Judy Blame, Nick and Barry Kamen, Zoe Bedeaux, and Venetia Scott.

Juergen Teller

PeopleBlameEarlyLateLondonWest

Ticketing is a people-intensive business to get it right on a global scale.

Julia Hartz

BusinessRightGetGlobalScale

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

Chris LeDoux

LuckSkillTwentyEightyPercent

Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done that.

Pete du Pont

ControlBudgetAmericaHouseDone

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