James A. Michener Quotes

He had obtained a clearer view of his homeland by leaving it and seeing it through the eyes of others.

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• Life is made up of marble and mud.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mud

• Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • You
  • Better
  • Once

• I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Know
  • Universe
  • Design

• I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Different
  • Real

• Our career had a sort of funny shape.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Career
  • Funny
  • Shape

• It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Important
  • Career
  • Interesting

• I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • English
  • Escape
  • Songwriter

• I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Think
  • Way
  • Resignation

• The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • May
  • Experience
  • Problems

• There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Good
  • Sick
  • Tired

• Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • Human
  • Forget

• I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Home
  • House
  • Design

• My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Teacher

• I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Period

• Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Money
  • Why
  • Know

• I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Think
  • Film
  • See

• If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Know
  • Like
  • Playing

• I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Trying
  • My Life

• And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

  

  Don Nickles
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Child
  • Insurance
  • Lie

• Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • People
  • House
  • Leaving

• The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Men

• He had obtained a clearer view of his homeland by leaving it and seeing it through the eyes of others.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Eyes
  • Leaving