Karin Slaughter Quotes

The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'

Karin Slaughter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatLiteratureKindCrimeCenter

There is energy and power in a crisis.

Andrew Cuomo

PowerEnergyCrisis

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

John Maynard Keynes

FutureTimeIgnoranceDarkDefeat

Love is the bond of perfection.

John Winthrop

LovePerfectionLove IsBond

The reality is, because of access to film, you don't have a lot of black people who want to go behind the camera. We raise our children to want to be in front of the camera and shine, and that's on us.

Michael Ealy

ChildrenPeopleShineBlackReality

I do lament how many investors focus on all the short-term sugar buzz of some marginal improvement in something - nothing history books are ever going to be written about. In many cases, these are quick and easy ways to make money.

Steve Jurvetson

HistoryImprovementMoneyFocusEasy

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

Tracy Austin

TennisPlayingChampionshipsCoast

When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into a program that placed us with a lovely Mexican family. We lived with them for six weeks while studying Spanish poetry and Mexican anthropology.

Mary Doria Russell

FamilyPoetryCityStudyingLovely

Germany is the biggest economy of Europe and we need Germany on board for the economic reforms of Europe, including, of course, the deepening of the internal market, resisting protectionism, and supporting further economic policy coordination.

Jose Manuel Barroso

NeedEconomyPolicyEuropeMarket

I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.

DMX

FriendEndDoingAttentionYouKnow

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.

Dennis Miller

DressWrongEdgeTopCarrotRivers

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

Christina Baker Kline

DeathKissYearsUnderstood

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

Bobby Knight

SportsBasketballGameYouPlay

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Karin Slaughter