Reading Truman Quotes

#1. I never wanted an independent Bosnia. I wanted Yugoslavia. That is my country.

Emir Kusturica

#2. The Russians could have some (warheads) aimed at Japan, so if we act up they can destroy our economy.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands

Dudley Moore

#4. A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.

Mary McCarthy

#5. Tennis is more commercial these days.

Lindsay Davenport

#6. Thou didst thy best, that is success.

John Wooden

#7. One cannot be taught to write. One can only learn to write by writing - and reading. Reading good books written by real artists - until you understand why they are good.

Truman Capote

#8. For me it was just important to play my game and believe until the end. Even now, Venus is not in the top 10, but you can still feel she can be back again.

Elena Vesnina

#9. Cancer is a great wake-up call. A call to take the tag off the new lingerie and wear that black lacy slip. To open the box of pearls and put them on. To crack open the bath oil beads before they shrivel up in a bowl on the toilet tank.

Regina Brett

#10. Some never escape from the imprisoning conviction that a cold or unattainable lover can be persuaded to become warm or attainable if they only discover the key.

Jeanne Safer

#11. With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience ... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!

Terence Stamp

#12. [ ... ] and the pea was put in the museum, where it can still be seen, if no one has stolen it.

Hans Christian Andersen

#13. Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

Tyra Banks

#14. Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Harry Truman

#15. Focus on an object of some type, hopefully an object that's beautiful or powerful. You could find a pretty colored stone that you just feel good about.

Frederick Lenz

#16. My preferred pastimes are conversation, reading, travel and writing, in that order.

Truman Capote

#17. Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

Truman Capote

#18. In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves ... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Harry Truman

#19. And there was no entertainment for them at night. They were too poor to own a television set. But they seemed content. Truman with his sculpting and building the recreation center. Lynne writing poems occasionally, reading them to her friends, then tearing them up.

Alice Walker

#20. Do what's right and you'll never go wrong.

Ron Kaufman