Diana Gabaldon Quotes

If you're going to write time travel stories, you have to sort of figure out how does time travel work in this particular universe that I'm dealing with.

Diana Gabaldon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkTimeTravelUniverseYouWrite

I never thought I would sing or dance - ever, ever, ever. My idea was to be Laurence Olivier or Peter Lorre or some great classical actor. I thought I'd be a character actor.

Joel Grey

CharacterGreatDanceThoughtActor

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

John F. Kennedy

MenWorldProblemsDreamNeverNeed

As a little girl, I got to meet Audrey Hepburn, who took my face in her hands and suddenly make me want to be an actress.

Stephanie Zimbalist

GirlMeFaceHandsWantMeet

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Sid Caesar

LifeGoalsLivedEnjoyedBetween

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

Roald Dahl

FatherSmallSmall TownWhoBroke

I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team.

Ron Perlman

GoodSchoolTeamSwimmingDoing

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

Lois Capps

MedicalKnowWellExampleRecords

My sense of style is influenced by how I feel. I want to express myself because they see you before they hear you. You want to come on stage, and what you look like should represent the song you are playing or the set you are about to play or the message in your music.

Jon Batiste

MusicStyleMyselfSongYouLook

Getting up at four in the morning to tend the farm while the world is quiet - feeding animals, mucking stalls, gathering eggs, filling water troughs, checking fences, letting animals out into the field - is a high point to my day.

Chip Gaines

MorningWaterDayWorldFarmQuiet

The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it.

Peter T. King

JobProcessDoingDoneCapableSee

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

Peter Tork

MusicEnergyYouLateAccountant

I definitely believe there is more than what can be seen. I don't know if it's anything that you'd consider omens or signs, but yes... I believe in something more.

Shiloh Walker

BelieveYouKnowI BelieveSigns

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