Jay Parini Quotes

The U.S. invaded Vietnam because many in our government - Lyndon Johnson's best and brightest - imagined it could impose a government on that country that would provide a buffer against China and stop the supposedly rolling dominos of Communism.

Jay Parini

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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

B. F. Skinner
- Life
- Me
- Always
My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.

W. Bruce Cameron
- Up
- World
- Good
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.

Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
- Guitar
- Just
- Studying
If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

Yotam Ottolenghi
- Life
- Healthy
- Choose
In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

Barry Ritholtz
- Business
- You
- Investment
When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.

Hans Zimmer
- People
- World
- Art