John Edgar Wideman Quotes

My father was intelligent and closed-mouthed. He knew a lot more than what he was ever going to tell you.

John Edgar Wideman

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• It's those damn critics again.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Again
  • Damn

• If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Think
  • Honor
  • Most

• Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • High
  • Today
  • Values

• I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Love
  • Need

• I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Good
  • Sleep

• Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Work
  • May
  • Open-minded

• I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Medical
  • Ship
  • Physician

• There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Language
  • Colleagues
  • Racial

• I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • People
  • Government
  • Chance

• Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Me
  • Said
  • Now

• I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Home
  • Black
  • Myself

• The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Like
  • Childhood
  • Same

• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Audience
  • See
  • Blue

• I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.

  

  Maluma
  • Think
  • Song
  • Break

• My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Family
  • Together
  • Blues

• At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Age

• It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.

  

  Aime Cesaire
  • Painting
  • Tree

• To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.

  

  Albert Maltz
  • Life
  • Friend

• I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.

  

  Liya Kebede
  • Life
  • Up

• My father was intelligent and closed-mouthed. He knew a lot more than what he was ever going to tell you.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Father
  • Intelligent