Karin Slaughter Quotes

Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.

Karin Slaughter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 6, 1971

Topics

GoodPeopleBelieveReadingBetter

I wrote 'Legends of the Fall' in nine days, but I had been thinking about it for a few years.

Jim Harrison

ThinkingFallLegendsYearsDays

If your family loves you, you're fine. What you can't grow up without is love.

Joanna Lumley

FamilyLoveGrowYouGrow UpUp

If you take my equipment away from me, I might as well retire.

John O'Keefe

MeYouRetireTakeAwayWell

I hate that song 'Mr. Bojangles.' It drives me up the wall, since it's not about him at all. He was never a bum in jail.

Shirley Temple

HateMeSongWallJailNever

I was already devouring literature and I was the ripe old age of 15 when I decided to be an actor. I just thought plays were the most fantastic way of expressing life. I thought I'd discovered Shakespeare - 'hey, there's a new guy in town, don't know if anyone's read him.' I was just excited about the whole thing, from day one.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

LifeAgeDayOld AgeThoughtKnow

I wanted to put a really good kids' racing bike out there for kids under 14: 10-year-olds, eight-year-olds, right down to balance bikes for kids.

Bradley Wiggins

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I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten.

Arthur Laffer

HistoryValueThinkPresentYou

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

Phyllis Diller

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I think too many people are offended by stuff that doesn't matter.

Syd

PeopleThinkOffendedMatterStuff

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

Riccardo Muti

PowerSolitudeStandIslandRather

People at the very top of the income scale also benefited from globalization and automation. But the income of working- and middle-class people in the developed world has stagnated.

Moshe Vardi

PeopleWorldGlobalizationAutomation

In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.

Maria Semple

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