Rick Bass Quotes

I don't think I'm a natural novelist. Plot is definitely one of my weaker points. I've been working on it a long time, and it's not getting much better.

Rick Bass

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 7, 1958

Topics

TimeThinkBetterLongLong Time

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony.

John Barrymore

ShortYouNeverRealizePayMonth

My main focus is to always try to be myself first, and then, hey, if I wear a cool jacket, that's a bonus.

John Krasinski

MyselfFocusCoolTryJacketFirst

You can't live in Orange County and train in Thousand Oaks. OK? you just can't. Not with the hours we put in. We have to be on time.

Jeff Fisher

LiveTimeYouTrainOrangeJust

There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.

John Redwood

GoodRichDesignMarketingGoWhy

I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.

Mo Rocca

FunnyCoolThinkKindWayMean

When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us.

Desi Arnaz

CountryNobodyMoreOddsTwoOver

My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.

Chesley Sullenberger

LearningForwardBetterWantGoing

In our time, there are still many, like those in the Good Samaritan story, who being of the religious classes in that time, purposely crossed to the other side of the road, and passed by the injured and bleeding.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

GoodTimeRoadStorySideBeing

I'm more of a Cristal Connors than a Nomi Malone.

Brad Goreski

MoreThan

What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.

Bobby Rahal

PeopleMeFeelYouGoConnected

It is hard working with animals, I've got to say.

Peter Dinklage

AnimalsSayHardGotWorking

No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?

Paul Weller

DayKingMusiciansWhyUpMiles

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