S. E. Hinton Quotes

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

S. E. Hinton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1948

Topics

MoneyImaginationFeelingsWhyWrite

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

Joe E. Lewis

ManDrunkNeverHolding OnWithout

Google Now is one of those products that to many users doesn't seem like a product at all. It is instead the experience one has when you use the Google Search application on your Android or iPhone device (it's consistently a top free app on the iTunes charts). You probably know it as Google search, but it's far, far more than that.

John Battelle

ExperienceFreeSearchYouKnowNow

Acknowledging that there's something you desire, not going after it, and deciding that, 'You know what, it's fine; I'll just focus on what I do have, make myself a ham sandwich, and call it a day,' isn't happiness. It's denial.

Jen Sincero

HappinessMyselfFocusDayYouKnow

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

Ann Landers

PersonBeliefRightEvidenceDestroy

I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so infuriating. It's like, 'Who is this guy, and why does he have a memoir?' David Letterman could write a memoir. Joan Rivers could. I'm just a nobody. I'm a comedian and a writer.

Mike Birbiglia

MadNobodyWhyWriteGuySomething

Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're the one putting the earmuffs on, but I wish you could hear me because I like you.'

Louis C. K.

MeSayingThinkWishTalkingYou

For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.

Lizzy Caplan

WorkDecisionMoneyPastSmart

There are some aspects of the story of 'Power' that clearly are about race in the sense that any one of us now who's black and was raised in this country was raised with a lie, which is, 'You can never be president.' That's not true.

Courtney A. Kemp

PowerLieStoryBlackYouCountry

I think things just happen to people. That's healthier, I feel, than believing there's some grand scheme where your story is already inscribed in the Book of Life. Books get rewritten.

Bob Saget

LifePeopleBookStoryThinkFeel

I'm staying focused and clear about what I want in life, and I'm going to get it, man.

Bobby Brown

LifeManWantFocusedGoingClear

When I finished grad school, I sort of fell into journalism. Someone mentioned that there was an entry-level job at the Reuters News Agency. I applied, and, to my amazement, I got the job.

Wolf Blitzer

JobSchoolSomeoneJournalismNews

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

Thomas Frank

LiveGreatPeopleWorldFreeThink

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