James Patterson Quotes

I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics.

James Patterson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 22, 1947

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If you can get a teen leader in each sector of a student population, you can pull people in. Everybody wants to get involved, but most are too afraid. When they see a person they think is cool leading it, they're first to join.

Andrew Shue

LeaderTeenPeopleCoolThinkYou

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

Andrew Young

BetterYouPrinciplesLeaveOff

Science fiction has been an inspiration to generations of scientists and engineers, and the film series 'Star Wars' is no exception.

John M. Grunsfeld

ScienceEngineersScience Fiction

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.

Robert Byrne

PeopleIdeasGiftRunReasonOut

The first robot in Neom will be Neom itself.

Mohammad bin Salman

WillRobotFirstItself

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Loren Eiseley

NatureFlowerWithoutStarCould

Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.

Julia Roberts

MeLaughYouPersonShowLike

I always try to do more than one or two takes if we have the time.

Juan Antonio Bayona

TimeTryMoreTwoAlwaysThan

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

GreatDepressionMoneyPeopleDinner

We question these issues of race and struggle and white privilege because we know that those issues are real and because those issues have real implications in black communities. And white supremacy is not only dangerous, but it is deadly.

DeRay Mckesson

StruggleBlackWhiteDangerousKnow

If there are cracks in your armor, your opponent is going to find them.

Doug Baldwin

FindOpponentGoingYourCracks

The Olympic games are already there and we don't have even half of what you need to train well.

Dayron Robles

YouTrainGamesNeedHalfWell

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