Don Winslow Quotes

As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath.

Don Winslow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 31, 1953

Topics

ThinkWaveYouKnowPlacesSee

Working in a prison, is, to my mind, similar in ways to working in a coal mine. It's going to scare away a lot of people.

Jennifer Haigh

PeopleMindPrisonGoingWorking

Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up. I think in a book, in any book, you can have a reactive character. Some of the great novels of all time have had that, but in a film you can't do that.

Melissa Rosenberg

ChangeCharacterGreatTimeBookUp

Contrary to popular mythology, not all NFL cheerleaders are bimbos or strippers or bored pretty girls looking to get rich. The Ben-Gals offer proof. Neither a bimbo nor a stripper nor a bored pretty girl would survive the rigorous life of a Ben-Gal. The Ben-Gals all have jobs or school or both.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

LifeGirlSchoolSurviveLooking

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

Michael Ian Black

FutureHopePainTearsParent

One time, I fought 90 fights in 90 days in 90 different places around the world. I didn't even know who I was: about 45 or 50 in, they just kept pushing me, and that's when I really get into a lot of trouble.

Roddy Piper

TimeMeWorldTroubleKnowPlaces

We performers sacrifice so much for your entertainment.

Rose McGowan

SacrificeEntertainmentYourMuch

I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.

Monte Irvin

SportsTeacherTimeJobSchool

That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.

Janis Ian

TimeMomentYourselfAmazingYou

I was for years in the yellow period, you know.

Josef Albers

YellowYouKnowYearsPeriod

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

William Hazlitt

ArtBeingPleasingConsistsPleased

Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

Peter Blair Henry

PeopleWorldPovertyCountryGrowing

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

Sean Hannity

PeopleMeImpressHarvardYale

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