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Jan Karon Quotes

I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.

Jan Karon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1937

Topics

Work Time Best Advertising Color

Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.

Joe Shuster

Back Talk Anything Paper Would Ever

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

Jessica Simpson

Women Death People Glow You Say

I had to be clean-shaven all the time to play a Mormon missionary, so after I was done, I grew a mustache out of rebellion. It was actually very polarizing. I became attractive to a completely new group of people and also repulsive to a new group of people. The lesson: mustaches are divisive.

Andrew Rannells

Time People Lesson Play New Done

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

John Langdon

Science Words Language Design Create

The internet business model changed dramatically. You would never have an Uber, you would never had an Instagram, if you didn't have a connected computer in your pocket that didn't also have a camera or a GPS.

Steve Mollenkopf

Business Internet Camera You Never

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing.

Tom Carper

Together Broken Action Legal Class

When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want al those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.

Robbie Williams

Light Myself Sleep Thoughts Down Go

When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Boy Dying Little Left Four

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

Jonathan Sacks

Technology Power World Help Know Us

My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.

Bonnie Tyler

Father Me Singing Down Sunday Top

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

Anthony Hecht

Poetry Secrets Dark Hidden Like

There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid started a band in high school, and half of them were good and have careers based on relationships built at that time? That wasn't what my life was like at all.

Autre Ne Veut

Life Good Time School High School