Sue Grafton Quotes

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Sue Grafton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

NaturePassionPeopleEnergyBusy

Money messes up everything. It ruins art. The second you start putting price tags on this stuff, it's... Art isn't for just the wealthy. It's for everybody to enjoy.

John Gourley

ArtMoneyStartEnjoyYouPrice

Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.

John Deacon

TimeThinkYouCountryKnowClub

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

John Hughes

GreatTimeSpringLongDarkDirty

Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.

Amy Cuddy

PracticeSmilingTeethPencilYour

All I want, and I think all any parent with a semblance of a moral psychology wants, is for my kid to have his own experience, uninhibited.

Robert Downey, Jr.

ExperienceThinkParentMoralWant

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

WordsLiteraturePicturesWayImage

If you aren't winning, we are not going to be happy.

Jon Gruden

HappyBe HappyWinningYouGoing

I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.

Diane Ackerman

GoodThinkEnjoyLyingAdmireVery

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Confucius

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I want to be somebody, a person, first that people remember, but also, I want music that I release to still be around. I don't want it to just be cool for a second and be gone.

Cole Swindell

MusicPeopleCoolRememberPerson

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

Cicely Tyson

YourselfChallengesYouNeverThings

I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army.

Rick James

ArmyGoWantGoingGetReally

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