Brian Reynolds Myers Quotes
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.Brian Reynolds Myers
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
P. J. O'Rourke -
For decades, NRDC has created and supported policies that will ultimately end our reliance on fossil fuels.
Frances Beinecke -
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
Adam Carolla -
Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
Ramakrishna -
I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
Camille Claudel -
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
Jack Horner
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
Dani Shapiro -
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner -
I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
Sam Worthington -
Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
Garry Shandling -
My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'
Sabrina Carpenter
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
Barack Obama -
'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
M. J. Rose -
It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
Ira Glass -
You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite
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Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.
Allen West -
A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.
Bill Clinton -
I think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars.
Mike Posner -
In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.
Frank Shorter -
If she forgets where she came from, if the people lose sight of what brought them along, if she listens to the deniers and mockers, then will begin the rot and dissolution.
Carl Sandburg -
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
Brian Reynolds Myers