John Knowles Quotes

My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.

John Knowles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 16, 1926 - November 29, 2001

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As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

John Caudwell

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I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen.

Megan Fox

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I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African American kids, to see an African American face that plays baseball.

Matt Kemp

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But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper.

John T. Flynn

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No one should ever be hurt or killed for saying, writing or drawing anything.

Steve Breen

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Belief comes spontaneously as well as by effort. Belief is power. An insincere and uninspired seeker is aware of the truth that belief is power, but he cannot go beyond understanding or awareness; whereas a sincere, genuine, devoted and surrendered seeker knows that belief is dynamic power, and he has this power as his very own.

Sri Chinmoy

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We were so limited on time for 'No Burden' that we didn't get to overthink anything. There was no going for the perfect take, or even going for three takes. It was kind of nice because what you're hearing is our first impulse.

Lucy Dacus

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I was a Skynyrd fan before I was approached to be a part of Skynyrd, and they always ended it with 'Free Bird,' so I've been watching it since I was a kid.

Johnny Van Zant

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I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote the 'Books of Blood'.

Clive Barker

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When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Clint Eastwood

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If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

Brendan Behan

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For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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