Dennis Lehane Quotes

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

Dennis Lehane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 4, 1965

Topics

WorkMomentWorldConnectionsYou

Seaplanes are like the taxis of the Pacific Northwest.

Jimmy Graham

LikeNorthwestPacific

I'm one of those workaholics, the kind of guy who may drop with a cardiac arrest around 55.

Joe Penny

KindGuyMayDropWhoArrest

It would be much easier to just make black, brown and beige clothes. But I do not see the world in black and white and beige. I find colors incredibly important.

Jean Pigozzi

Black And WhiteColorsWorldBlack

Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.

John Sweeney

PeopleStrongerWorstNeverMovement

You can kill a body, but you cannot kill the great and noble idea of peace.

Shimon Peres

GreatPeaceYouBodyNobleIdea

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

Trace Adkins

ExperiencePeopleSongYouCandy

I don't mind demanding women.

Chris Noth

WomenMindDemanding

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,' or 'think you were smart.' My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson's disease.

Alice Munro

MotherYourselfSmartBelieveThink

What is high birth to him to whom high birth has never been the theme of his contemplation? What is a throne to him who has never dreamed of a throne?

William Godwin

NeverBirthThemeContemplationHigh

I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.

Peter Carey

WorkTimeMeWritingNightBook

Since puberty I've always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would to my contemporaries. When it came to the career thing, I never worried about it. It's better if you're still peaking when you're 60, which I feel I am.

Richard Griffiths

LifeI AmBetterFeelMy LifeYou

I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'

Mario Testino

MotherNameYouSaidWillSee

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