Simone Elkeles Quotes

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

Simone Elkeles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 24, 1970

Topics

ParentLoseLostKnowLikeYounger

The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.

Ang Lee

CulturePerspectiveWomanMoonDark

On any given day, I'm likely to be working at home, hunched over this keyboard, typing Great Thoughts and Beautiful Sentences - or so they seem at the time, like those beautifully flecked and iridescent stones one finds at the seashore that gradually dry into dull gray pebbles.

Michael Dirda

HomeBeautifulGreatTimeDayGray

There has been this - and it's reflected in the broadcasts - this moronic use of statistics. Which has suggested to everyone who is intelligent the use of statistics is moronic.

Michael Lewis

StatisticsIntelligentEveryoneBeen

Enough is as good as a feast.

Joshua Sylvester

GoodEnoughFeast

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

Chesley Sullenberger

ExperienceSafetyAviationSimply

My game is - and I'm not saying I'm slow or anything like that, but my game is mental. My game is shooting; my game is efficiency. If I'm healthy, I feel like I can be effective for a long time.

Chauncey Billups

TimeSayingGameSlowEfficiency

When I was a kid, I wanted to be in business or politics, like a CEO of a big corporation or a U.S. senator. There were also times I wanted to be an astronaut or a military officer. Yes, there were moments when I thought about doing this as a woman.

Chelsea Manning

BusinessPoliticsWomanThoughtKid

I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

Brion James

GoodBusinessGodMyselfMoneyHelp

Australians aren't really that crazy; in L.A. you get a little crazier. From my experience at least, Aussies don't really care that much about celebrities or things like that.

Brody Jenner

ExperienceCrazyCareYouLittle

We've been in business together ever since we were children, so back in the day, there were so many references to 'your dad.' Rather than wanting to sound totally hickified and go, 'Well, my daddy said,' we would refer to him as 'Phil.'

Willie Robertson

BusinessChildrenDayTogetherBack

The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous.

Pierre Schaeffer

WorldDangerousMoreThingsJust

With 'A Hijacking' I didn't talk to anyone who had been hijacked, but with 'A War,' I talked to as many soldiers as possible trying to understand how is it in Afghanistan.

Pilou Asbaek

WarTryingUnderstandPossibleTalk

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