Jim Harrison Quotes
Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.
Jim Harrison
Quotes to Explore
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
Cab Calloway
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Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads, bridges, and a lack of tools. This is what makes traditional philanthropy so daunting. You could build a thousand new hospitals in some parts of the world and barely make a difference.
Naveen Jain
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The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
Najib Razak
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In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.
Caitlin Moran
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I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.
Rafael Nadal
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We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
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As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.
Maya Angelou
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We have great power to affect the attitudes and behavior of the people around us, at work and at home. We have the power to set a tone of honor, to create an energy around ourselves that says, 'I respect myself. I respect you. Let's respect each other.'
Marianne Williamson
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Most people, especially activists, recognize their differences with others rather than what they have in common and that leads to frustration more than persuasion.
Dan Mathews
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Fiction writers tend to err either making people more than they are or less than they are. I'd rather err on the side of the former.
Jim Harrison
