Duane Michals Quotes

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

Duane Michals

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• Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Up
  • Man
  • Alone

• I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Up
  • War
  • Giving

• People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Coming
  • Miseries

• Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • See
  • Gymnastics

• A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Work
  • Home
  • Mood

• In America, it has been proven that the bulk of spending money is in the hands of women between 60 and 80, so it's so stupid. The people who do have the time and money to shop are either retired or empty-nesters.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Time
  • Women

• Don't shop when you're hungry or in a grumpy mood. You need to feel happy and confident to make the best decisions.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Happy
  • Best
  • Mood

• When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Between
  • Huge
  • Gap

• In baseball... you don't stop learning until it's over.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • You
  • Stop
  • Learning

• I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Characters
  • Experiences
  • Pattern

• Between Twitter and Facebook, early word of mouth for a film can destroy it immediately or take something you've never heard of and make it a huge hit.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Never
  • Destroy
  • Early

• Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Reality
  • Made
  • Many

• You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Together
  • Culture

• Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Rose

• Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Lies

• Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go,Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. … It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It's a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Different
  • Hope
  • Feeling

• 'No gold or platt I was simply red from the years i been holdin' back'

  

  Ludacris
  • Red
  • Gold

• I too have learned this in my experiences with the Spirit of God. Every situation can be redeemed and turned into exactly the preparation we require for a fullness of joy-to the extent of ourfaith in Christ's redemptive power. To that extent, the very circumstances we may have cursed will turn out to be our schooling for salvation.

  

  C. Terry Warner
  • God
  • May
  • Power

• I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

  

  Dar Williams
  • Parents
  • Religious

• Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

  

  Judith Viorst
  • Suffering
  • Travel
  • Pick

• When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

  

  Leslie Easterbrook
  • Up
  • Great
  • Desire

• There is no way to know Jackson’s thought process as he prepared to engage the Union army in front of him. He knew very little about it and certainly he had no idea that, at the moment he ordered his men to advance, he was actually outnumbered five to one. But it was characteristic of the man that his means of determining the enemy’s strength was to hit the enemy in the face and then see what happened. Typical, too, was his impatience to fight. As at Port Republic, he chose to attack before his full force had arrived.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Men
  • Enemy
  • Moment

• To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

  

  Duane Michals