Martin Cruz Smith Quotes

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

Martin Cruz Smith

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DressBookBackClassCalifornia

What I am suggesting is hard work and it can be slow work, but the rewards are well worth it.

Jesse Helms

WorkHard WorkI AmSlowWorthHard

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there.

Robert Rauschenberg

FeetThinkYouBedSayThirty

The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.

Simon Winchester

PositiveNatureLightWayProfound

I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.

Robert Wyatt

Moving OnPeopleMeStartGrowKnow

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mary McCarthy

LiveHeroDayWordsStoryYou

There is an overall seriousness in tone that pervades 'To The 5 Boroughs.'

Mike D

ToneSeriousnessOverall

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Louise Leakey

PastResearchDiscoveryGrandfather

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

Bret Easton Ellis

FatherBusinessSportsKnowEveryone

I give people style tips in Whole Foods. Wherever I go, people want to ask me questions all the time, and I'm more than happy to answer them. I love talking to people.

Brad Goreski

LoveTimeStyleHappyPeopleMe

For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

JobBelieveAmericanHelpDefend

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

Phylicia Rashad

Moving OnMovingYouChoiceNever

The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a living writing fiction and poetry.

Peter Heller

PoetryWritingYouLivingHardTell

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