Diana Gabaldon Quotes

From the late '70s to the early '90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged from articles on how to clean a longhorn cow's skull for living-room decoration to manuals on elementary math instruction on the Apple II... to a slew of software reviews and application articles done for the computer press.

Diana Gabaldon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MeCowEarlyAppleLateDone

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

Michael Dirda

HomeCultureReadingSelfEscape

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.

Meryl Streep

AttentionPerfectFindAnnoying

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

Stephen Cambone

TechnologyPeopleOrganizationThink

The first set of lyrics for the first songs I ever wrote, which are the ones on 'Pretty Hate Machine,' came from private journal entries that I realized I was writing in lyric form.

Trent Reznor

HateWritingJournalFirstPretty

Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.

Mo Ibrahim

GoodLegalThreeWellWhoDid

I would never, for the sake of the story or a twist, have a character do something that they just wouldn't do. I really couldn't. I'd rather miss out on the twist.

Lisa Jewell

CharacterStoryNeverOutSomething

I love women. I love celebrating women.

Dove Cameron

LoveWomenI LoveCelebrating

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.

Davy Jones

OrderShowGetSwitchAroundSudden

I believe that a parent's role is to provide a path or opportunity for their children.

David Soul

OpportunityChildrenPathBelieve

Growing up in New Orleans, I was always the only black kid, or one of two, on the school soccer team. While I was always conscious of this status, what took precedent was my unfettered love of the game.

Clint Smith

LoveSchoolTeamGrowing UpGame

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Chuck Palahniuk

LifeMistakeTryingYouBirthWhole

You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.

Anthony Rizzo

JobYouResultsSituationWantDeal

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