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

• I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • People
  • Time
  • Positive

• 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

• I'm going to be the first rapper to win the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't know exactly what it would be for, specifically, but I want it to be a change I make in the world with my music.

  

  Jay IDK
  • World
  • Music
  • Peace

• I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • Men
  • Action
  • Sleep

• Nor could the foole abstaine,But drunke as often.

  

  George Chapman

• I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on the television show, going over to it, and there's Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert, and Annie Ross. It knocked me out of my socks, and I'm still in flight.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • Up
  • Music
  • House

• I was having pretty bad anxiety attacks and stuff, and I think a lot of it had to do with my physical environment. Deep down I've always had a pretty strong connection with nature, but I've suppressed it for so long while living in the city. I think it caught up to me. I started really bugging out and needing wide-open space. So it was that simple. That and social anxiety. I felt like I was existing too much in nightlife.

  

  Brian DeGraw
  • Nature
  • Anxiety Attacks
  • Physical environment

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

  

  Duane Michals