Quindlen Author Quotes

#1. A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen.

Sharon Stone

#2. It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.

Black Elk

#3. To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore.

Rocky Marciano

#4. Male friends do not always face each other; they stand side by side, facing the world.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#5. Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.

Theo Van Doesburg

#6. There's no pleasure in work if you don't break a sweat. Out in the fields you feel any little breeze. You know it's coming, you hear it in the trees, you almost can't wait for it, and then there it is, like a cold drink of water.

Marilynne Robinson

#7. I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

Mick Fleetwood

#8. Admire the world for never ending on you
as you would an opponent, without taking your eyes away from him, or walking away.

Annie Dillard

#9. If a terrorist group wanted to hit Britain, all they'd have to do is kill 100 random celebrities. The country would have a nervous breakown.

Chris Morris

#10. More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

Pete Hamill