Kennedy Center Jfk Quotes & Sayings

I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

I was anxious, but also eager to be back in that Boy's Own world where every emotion was heightened, where even boredom had an edge. This — Clar Ni Chonghaile

Poetic simile was strictly limited to statements like 'his mighty steed was as fleet as the wind on a fairly calm day, say about Force Three,' and any loose talk about a beloved having a face that launched a thousand ships would have to be backed by evidence that the object of desire did indeed look like a bottle of champagne. — Terry Pratchett

But, deep in her heart she knew more than what the words read or heard seemed to say. She knew that every letter in every word in every war bulletin was, somewhere, first written in blood of men, of human beings, who had once smiled and sung songs, eaten, drunk, slept and loved. — Kate Seredy

I write nonfiction in this thriller-esque style. I have all the facts; I research it. I have thousands of pages of court documents ... I try to get inside my stories. — Ben Mezrich

It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer: Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line. — Mark Halperin

If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace. — Paul Brunton

I get very creative when I'm trapped in a plane and I can't do anything else. — Shaun Tan

The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research. — James Cronin

I like to see a tidy shop, and I want to see my investments well managed. — Nathan Kirsh