Quotes
Authors
David Baldacci
"Most folks here got rules 'bout trespassing. Warning shot's fired right close to the head. Get they's attention. Next shot gets a lot more personal. Now I'm too old to waste time firing a warning shot....." --
Source : David Baldacci (2011). “Wish You Well”, p.58, Pan Macmillan
David Baldacci
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“My first real kiss was in seventh grade. It was at the movie 'Hardball,' starring Keanu Reeves, and it was with my little sixth grade girlfriend. It was the first time we were alone. Her mom was sitting two rows in front of us!”
Source : "17 Questions with Matt Prokop". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 15, 2012.
“Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.”
“CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world.”
“Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.”
“Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that... reveals your inner self, whether you like it, or know it, or not. It is hard to fake it on a dance floor.”
“The orchestra's an amazing instrument, but I don't want to just arrange my songs for it. I think that might be kind of boring and a little bit overdramatic, perhaps. I'm still just having too much fun doing it my way, for the time being.”
“Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.”
Source : Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company
“Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.”
