Victor LaValle Quotes

Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

Victor LaValle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 3, 1972

Topics

PeopleThoughtsWorldReadingOthers

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

PersonPlacesPraiseLevel

I consider myself a realist.

John McCain

MyselfRealistConsider

Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having accomplished outstanding work in activities into which his insatiable need to expend his vast energies - to achieve, to prevail - carried him: journalism, editing, acting, social reform.

Robert Gottlieb

WorkGreatJournalismActingBorn

The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.

Steve Buyer

OldNationObligationDefenseHer

About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you don't have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.

Tom Heinsohn

GreatTimeBasketballGameThink

I've seen a lot of seasons, change in my time. It's been a very lucky life.

Tom Brokaw

LifeChangeTimeSeasonsLuckySeen

The First Amendment is the First Amendment for a reason - our most cherished right. But it often creates muddy and uncomfortable situations, ones that are the source of great drama and national self-reflection.

Rod Lurie

GreatUncomfortableDramaRightMost

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

Josiah Royce

LiveUniqueStriveWholeFarOur

I got a lot of flak for having Kirk as the lead because they all claimed it was a much harder sell, but no one else could have done that part for many reasons.

Donal Logue

DoneLeadGotBecauseSellReasons

I'm pretty much a chocolate guy. I'm up for any type of chocolate. Any chocolate.

Denis Leary

ChocolateUpPrettyGuyMuchType

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

Anne Sweeney

PowerPeopleInfluenceUnderstanding

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

Augustus Y. Napier

WomenChildrenMenWordsSociety

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