Quotes about american-writer
american-writer kids
My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
american-writer cares genuinely guarantees relationship sexually
One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss. Mary Gordon
american-writer approach build certainly content discard drive inner narrative rather science tried work
That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them. James Gunn
american-writer bite goes lets respond run runs stories
My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. Ray Bradbury
american-writer per pupil schools
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools. Jonathan Kozol
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It is better to go down in infamy than to never go down at all.
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The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
american-writer career changing intended landscapes nature photograph wound
My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times.
american-writer business merely
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business. Michael Gerber
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Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me? John O'Hara
american-writer break performance recycled shut
We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
american-writer felt oppressive shame silent
I felt shame and failure, for all the compromises I'd made in my life. I could feel his silent disapproval of me. It was an oppressive thing. Joyce Maynard
american-writer last question west
How long that will last is another question because if they become more and more secure, they may, in fact, become more like West Europe. Robert Kagan
american-writer class
I could have had class. I could have been a contender. Budd Schulberg
american-writer believe cambridge couple fiction grades hawking science spent
Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great). Frederik Pohl
american-writer aristotle blood brain certain cool exists famous involved knowing merely process taught true
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. Will Cuppy
american-writer leadership responsibility
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. William Pollard
american-writer enjoy pleased quality time
Rush has done some top-notch quality work, and we're very, very pleased with them. We really enjoy working with them. They are on time and on budget, which makes me happy. Mark Russell
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We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net. Cynthia Heimel
american-writer revolution
This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody! Peter Stone
american-writer good hard stay work
Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. Paul Gallico
american-writer labor laying manual
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe. John Gregory
american-writer life means ourselves risky seek worth
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
american-writer man pass
You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way? Paul Vixie
american-writer electric fences grid protect
It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.
american-writer kitten
An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old. Carl Van Vechten
american-writer human
Fiction's about what it is to be a human being. David Foster Wallace
american-writer course fact uneasy wishing
We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?
american-writer attempt cannot darkness knowing seeing truth
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. Frank Herbert
american-writer bingo bunch floor nursing players rot
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. Florence King
american-writer education receptive withhold
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. Agnes Repplier
american-writer chiefly generally gets kitten remarkable stopping
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.