Lists Quotes - Page 9

I feel at home most places I go, but my very top of the list are Bali, Italy, and London. Those are like second homes to me.

A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis, is a master key to stress-free productivity.

Harvard and Yale concentrated with venture capitalists that got the best calls and brainpower. Very few firms made most of the money, and they made it in just a few periods. Everyone else returned between mediocre and lousy. When returns happened, envy rippled through institutional money management. The amount invested in venture capital went up 10 times post-1999. That later money was lost very quickly. It will happen again. I don't know anyone who successfully resists this stuff. It becomes a new orthodoxy.

Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.

Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

Lovers, forget your love And list to the love of these She a window flower And he a winter breeze.

The trick to getting things done is to list things to do in doable order.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

There are a lot of things money can't buy. Not one of them is on my son's list.

I'm definitely a messy person... I know where everything is but I just can't organize. I don't make lists and find scripts on the laundry machine, and under my bed, or in the bathroom, kitchen. It's bad, I really need to take control.

Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.

To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.

A novelist should make you realize nothing is stable. If you don't believe anything with robustness, you're doing something more radical than anything else.

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.

How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

Really, the novelist has the best casting since he doesn't have to cope with the actors and all the rest. -Alfred Hitchcock

In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.

How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.

I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident.

The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science.

It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.