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

• 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
  • Tired
  • Sick

• 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

• 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

• I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Done
  • Training

• My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Character
  • Me
  • Turn

• I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• There is no such thing as muddle - obscurity, yes - but muddle can exist only in a disorderly brain.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Brain

• As CEO, I believe my most important job is to both define reality and inspire hope for the PayPal team. Defining reality includes being realistic about all the things that could go wrong so that we are prepared to navigate those challenges.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Job

• I'm one of the people that, when I hear Republicans talk about repealing Obamacare, I just want to roll my eyes. Republicans talk about reform to the healthcare, and they talk about selling insurance across state lines, and that's their solution?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Insurance

• I ride my bike past the Danish Parliament, and it's very accessible - there's really no security!

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Past
  • Bike

• 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