Jim Crace Quotes

My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.

Jim Crace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 1, 1946

Topics

WordsManPeopleSmallTongueYoung

I've always believed that competition is good for consumers and good for businesses.

Jim Pattison

GoodCompetitionAlwaysConsumers

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction.

John Foster Dulles

WorldProblemsProblemRaceHuman

Stress is a byproduct of subconscious beliefs you have about the world. You can't choose not to believe something. You believe it because you think it's true. To eliminate stress, you must learn to challenge these beliefs so that you see them differently.

Andrew J. Bernstein

ChallengeStressWorldBelieveThink

When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.

Meat Loaf

NameYouGloryGetYourMarquee

My admonition is, 'No counterterrorism lead goes uncovered.'

Robert Mueller

LeadGoesCounterterrorismUncovered

A song doesn't happen as a whole verse; it happens linearly, line by line, almost word by word, phrase by phrase. And if each phrase, each line, has a proper emotional feel and connects to the line before it and the line after it, the song will be doing what it should be doing.

Robert Hunter

SongFeelDoingWillLineEmotional

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

Amanda Seyfried

HumilityPeopleLaughComedyMagic

Since I've been writing about things my entire life, I thought, 'Well, that's what I would do as a president is to read and then write and talk about things that are interesting to me.'

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

LifeMeWritingThoughtInteresting

They're free because they don't know any, better. So they can just run around and do whatever, and do whatever, and most of the time they don't get caught.

Mike Judge

TimeFreeBetterKnowRunWhatever

I don't think it's fair to pinpoint Asia in terms of piracy. It's a worldwide problem. With 'The Expendables 3,' piracy extended everywhere, and over 10 percent of it was in the United States. So I don't want to put my hands over my eyes. It's a shame there is no DVD business in a lot of Asia, certainly China and India.

Jon Feltheimer

BusinessEyesThinkProblemHands

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

Dean Koontz

PeopleViolenceGoSeeOutUp

Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.

Craig Hatkoff

MusicPeopleTalkingYouPowerful

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