Sue Grafton Quotes

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Sue Grafton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 24, 1940 - December 28, 2017

Topics

IdeasSheepEasyExecutionGoats

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

IdeasWinningStartGameForward

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.

Andrew Shaffer

ArchitectureCityBuildingsChicago

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Robert Smithson

ArtArtistsThemselvesOutput

I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.

Tom Felton

FishingFishWayAlwaysLike

You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.

Rose Schneiderman

YouNothingRightWorkerAlso

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

Mary Douglas

GreatOrganizationGoThroughPhases

I love New York, but sometimes New York is so mean to you.

Mary H.K. Choi

LoveNew YorkYouNewSometimes

I have absolutely no doubts that the best for the U.K. is to stay in the European Union.

Miroslav Lajcak

BestStayUnionAbsolutelyDoubts

I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.

Josef Albers

Talker

The color of the mountains is Buddha's body; the sound of running water is his great speech.

Dogen

GreatWaterMountainsColorBody

I can't tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand?

Derek Walcott

YouWhyUnderstandSoundHardUp

I didn't know until later, but my uncle was quite a famous bohemian in Glasgow, and he played guitar. My father was a kind of a poetic bohemian, and he read me poetry.

Donovan

FatherPoetryMeGuitarUncleKnow

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