John Kearns Quotes & Sayings

People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.' — Robin Williams

I was nobody until.... now.... Now I think that I'm somebody! — Deyth Banger

Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways. — Black Elk

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death. — Andrew Cuomo

(from John Hay's diary) "The President never appeared to better advantage in the world," Hay proudly noted in his diary. "Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I could challenge the notion that I was constantly headed for failure. — Sheryl Sandberg

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him. — Jane Austen

I'm basically one of the best people I know. — Jeff Kinney

Human labor, the manual work that people engage in to build their world, both physical and spiritual, defines the realization of their conceptual realm. — Kilroy J. Oldster

It is a very thin line between us and the abyss, Will Henry,' he said. 'For most it is like that line out there, where the sea meets the sky. They see it. They cannot deny the evidence of their eyes, but they never cross it. They cannot cross it; though they chase it for a thousand years, it will forever stay where it is. Do you realize it took our species more than ten millennia to realize that simple fact? That the line is unreachable, that we live on a ball and not on a plate? Most of us do, anyway. Men like Jacob Torrance and John Kearns ... Those kinds of men still live on a plate. Do you understand what I mean?'
I nodded. I thought I did. — Rick Yancey

My favorite ethnic group is smart. — Dagoberto Gilb

What was the promise with the head sick? — F Scott Fitzgerald

My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?' — Doris Kearns Goodwin

And John Kearns whispered into my ear: "Do you see it now? *You* are the nest. *You* are the hatchling. *You* are the chrysalis. *You* are the progeny. *You* are the rot that falls from the stars. All of us
you and I and poor, dear Pellinore. Behold the face of the magnificum, child. And despair."
Though I was sickened by the sight, I looked. In the bower of the beast at the top of the world, I beheld the face of the magnificum, and I did not turn away. — Rick Yancey

A resolution to exercise or eat more nutritious foods is a step taking you back to the well-being from which you originated. — Wayne Dyer

I had to suppress a smile. Sherlock Holmes once remarked of his brother, Mycroft, that you were as unlikely to find him outside of the Diogenes Club as you were to meet a tramcar coming down a country lane. Like Mycroft, Father had his rails, and he ran on them. Except for church and the occasional short-tempered dash to the train to attend a stamp show, Father seldom, if ever, stuck his nose out-of-doors. — Alan Bradley

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist. — John Banville

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. — Alexander Pope

I'm giving my whole life to breaking the butterfly of a John Rockefeller upon the wheel of my ponderous articles, — Doris Kearns Goodwin