John Corey Whaley Quotes

In the middle of my fourth year teaching is when I got my book contract - in 2010. I knew the book would come out in May 2011.

John Corey Whaley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 19, 1984

Topics

BookYearOutContractMayMiddle

The possibility of collusion between Trump's allies and Russian intelligence is much more serious than Watergate. It is a constitutional crisis. It represents a violation of our republic's most sacred trust.

Jennifer Palmieri

TrustIntelligenceSeriousCrisis

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

John McCain

SunsetGodBelieveEvolutionHand

Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And then, you try to create as much surprise and spontaneity and feeling and variation while respecting that structure.

Robert Pinsky

PoetrySurpriseYouCreateJazzTry

I believe in less government interference in people's personal lives, including whom to marry, when and whether to bear a child and how to raise kind and compassionate children.

Ann McLane Kuster

ChildrenGovernmentChildPeople

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy.

Roger Ebert

ChallengesTragedyHumanNeedExpand

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

Mohnish Pabrai

LoveSuccessGoodIdeasProudCopy

For decades, the pace of technological change in manufacturing has outstripped that in the economy as a whole. And, so, firms - manufacturing firms - have found it easier to continue producing by - with - reducing their workforces.

Janet Yellen

ChangeManufacturingEconomyPace

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

Jonathan Ames

LifeFearMomentHateFeelMore

I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.

Doris Lessing

NeverThingsSenseHowVanishHad

God didn't design anyone to be recognized by 2 billion people.

Peter Falk

GodPeopleDesignBillionRecognized

The worst days of my life were in Iraq, and the best days were there, too. My fondest memories of the Iraq War are of the people - both Americans and Iraqis - and the opportunity we saw in one another, for our countries, and for which we fought.

Seth Moulton

LifeOpportunityMemoriesBestWar

I'd really like to play bad guys or guys that have something a little bit off about them. And I get to do that periodically.

Scott Bakula

BadPlayLittleSomethingGetOff

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