Quotes About Mccrum

#1. Your destiny is your responsibility".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#2. I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.

Marco Arment

#3. Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

Don DeLillo

#4. Fuck death, it's not the enemy, zombies are.

Mark Tufo

#5. NOT EVERYONE NEEDS TO BELIEVE IN YOUR DREAM, BUT YOU DO.

Chris Guillebeau

#6. Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

Peter Kreeft

#7. Should misfortune visit the Court, that can only be the result of its continued abuses. If the palace is attacked, that can only be the result of misgovernment. I can hardly be held responsible for the outcome.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#8. Almost no one reads poems, almost everyone listens to songs. And if songs were, nowadays, a way to get people to poetry and poetry to people?

Luigina Sgarro

#9. We are not native. We have no generations of Americans behind us. We have roots elsewhere. We are looking in from the outside. To me, that seems to be perfectly natural.

Don DeLillo

#10. I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us.

Derek Landy

#11. You can be knocked down, but it doesn't mean you're out.

Judd Nelson

#12. I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.

Don DeLillo

#13. Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

Don DeLillo

#14. Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways.

Robert McCrum

#15. We should point out that if we feel like we've upset somebody and they're vitriolic, if people are actively pursuing some sort of complaint, then we've done our job.

Jamie Hyneman

#16. Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.

Don DeLillo

#17. About forty per cent of all strokes are unexplained. They're a mystery, like life itself.

Robert McCrum

#18. I know what we do really well - I just try and keep us focused on doing that.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

#19. When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.

Don DeLillo

#20. Maybe" she said. "I just wish we'd have a little mishap.It would be reassuring

Sarah Dessen

#21. I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

Don DeLillo

#22. English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

Robert McCrum

#23. Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks.
Life itself had become a secret affair.

Mary Balogh

#24. So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

Justin Cronin

#25. Everyone who does not live in Berlin lives in Brooklyn now.

Don DeLillo

#26. It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

Don DeLillo