Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Ruth Reichl Quote: 'I meet people, and we can ...'

Related Quotes

flower colorful garden bloom
I'm not good at meeting people, and I'm not good at small talk.


Nick Frost
Tags: Good People Talk
dunes sea north sea beach sand
I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.


Caitlin Moran
Tags: Good Will Am
My books are written from the heart, to entertain: they're books I would like to read. Because of that, when I meet people who like them, we have so much to talk about!
Nick Harkaway
Tags: People Like About
My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
Tags: You Know Very
dolomites tofane nature
I think people who meet me just pretty much get what I am about.


Melissa George
Tags: People Me About
I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.
Noel Clarke
Tags: Me Very Show
dunes beach sea nature clouds
I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.


Melissa George
Tags: People Me Think
It's not a problem to be surrounded by other writers if that's the craft that you're doing. I suppose if you get obsessed with the notion of being a writer more than the writing itself, that would be bad. But I live near really smart, thoughtful people who take writing very seriously, and I can meet them for breakfast and talk books.
Phil Klay
Tags: You People Who
Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people.
Terry Fox
Tags: Time People Get
You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever get. That's the way you're going to get the best out of people. Whether they know you or not shouldn't matter for comedy. They should get to know you pretty quickly. and they should be having a good time pretty quickly.
Dylan Moran
Tags: Time Good Best
Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Wilson Mizner
This house better get cleaned up in six months. The swamp is going to have to be drained pretty quickly.
Ron Wyden
Tags: Get Up Going
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.
Anthony Bourdain
Tags: Good Me Like
I don't want to be callous about it, but we all seemed to get over the Oklahoma bombing pretty quickly, and we're never going to get over 9/11.
Daniel Woodrell
Tags: About Get Want
When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.
John Wayne
Tags: About Had Much
There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.
Lynn Coady
Tags: People Like Who
I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved.
Chris Pine
Tags: Great Power Which
With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
P. C. Cast
Tags: You Get Out
I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.
Tom Peters
Americans don't have deep gastronomic roots. They wanted to get away from the cultures of Europe or wherever they came from. We stirred up that melting pot pretty quickly.
Alice Waters
Tags: Get Up Wanted