Herb Caen Quotes

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

Herb Caen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 3, 1916 - February 1, 1997

Topics

DayStepPeopleCityCrazySmall

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor

FriendshipLoveRomanticFireSet

In the end, being the writer on set is a bit like having organised a big party, but you're not allowed to eat or drink anything. You just have to stand in the corner.

John Niven

EndStandYouPartyDrinkEat

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

Jeff Vandermeer

HistoryConsequencesUsDreamingToo

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.

Michael Connelly

PeopleControlBookConfidentYou

Once I had my son, I stopped shopping in stores because it's not an easy process to try on clothes - and I'm not an impulsive buyer. I need to do the dance in front of the mirror, the whole nine yards.

Solange Knowles

SonMirrorDanceShoppingClothes

Slack is actually a technical term in product management that means the excess capacity the system has to absorb any failures or to take on new work. That's something that was really on our minds when we came up with it.

Stewart Butterfield

WorkManagementNewProductMinds

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

Shirin Ebadi

FearLiveMyselfYouTrainBecome

As an actor, your focus is very finite. All you're worried about is your character and what you have to do, what your goals are in this scene and in this piece of material. Whereas, as the director, everything is your responsibility. I enjoy carrying the load like that and being the responsible party.

Jason Priestley

GoalsCharacterResponsibilityFocus

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

Chuck Jones

WorkLiveTogetherLionHungryPrey

I was 13 when I reached my present height. I was so skinny I looked like one of those starving people in Africa. The boys in my class would beat me up because I was too tall.

Brigitte Nielsen

PeopleMePresentClassAfricaTall

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

William James

ThinkSaidBreatheMustAbleThem

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

Penelope Lively

ChoicesMakeConstantlyHappenstance

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