Diana Gabaldon Quotes

When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up.

Diana Gabaldon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 11, 1952

Topics

BirthdayWritingStartBookLibrary

America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.

Jim Ramstad

HealthBestCareAmericaVeterans

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

Joe E. Lewis

SportsPlayLowThanAnyHotter

I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

Joan Jett

GoodFightFunHaving FunBelieve

For me, the ideal job as an actor would be something that is intrinsically a drama but to which I could bring in as much humor as possible.

Robert Picardo

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I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

Stephen Dobyns

DayBelieveProcessDownOne Day

Discrimination in virtually every aspect of political, economic, and social life is now perfectly legal if you've been labeled a felon.

Michelle Alexander

LifeLegalPoliticalYouNowSocial

If you've been trained to listen to mistakes your whole life, you forget to listen to opportunities.

Lucia Micarelli

LifeMistakesOpportunitiesYouBeen

A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I could go on this trip with these people. The drums found me; I didn't find them. When I started playing, I realized how appropriate an instrument it was for me.

Janet Weiss

MyselfPeopleMeFindPlayGo

Today, I'm a candidate for the office of president of the United States of America. My kids can't believe I just said that.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

TodayBelieveAmericaSaidOffice

The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

Jon Landau

ConflictSearchEarlyImmortality

I was too young to ever have fun in the '90s, so I'm always trying to relive what I wasn't a part of.

Chelsea Leyland

FunHave FunTryingYoungAlways

We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.

Bobby Farrelly

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