Fields Quote by John Gregory Dunne Download Open image “Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.” — John Gregory Dunne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fields Levels People Playing fields Stupid Stupid people Trying Violence Way
Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same. — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Violence is violence. Trauma is trauma. And we are taught to downplay it, even think about it as child's play. — Tarana Burke Copy Share Image
Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“If you have the power to hit people over the head whenever you want, you don’t have to trouble yourself too much figuring out… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color. — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
“Writing is a manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.” — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal. — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . . — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
It's a great lesson in modesty that you realize you're illiterate in a field that you think you're an expert in. — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
I don't think people will ever forget I was an 'Angel,' anymore than they'll forget Sally Field was 'The Flying Nun.' — Cheryl Ladd Copy Share Image
I can't imagine that I would be asked that by the president-elect [Donald Trump], or then-president [Barack Obama]. But it's - I'm very clear.… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
My dream is to see India as a nation of well-looked-after and respected sportspeople in all fields. — Saina Nehwal Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
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