John Irving Quotes
I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
Quotes to Explore
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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Progress in economics is said to take place through a cumulative process in which scholars build on the work of their predecessors. In an age when graduate syllabi contain few references to books and articles written as many as ten years ago, this is too infrequently the case.
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When I was a kid, I couldn't see life outside ramen noodles and Kool-Aid.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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When I was growing up, my father helped kindle my passion for innovation and technology. He was a high-ranking executive at AT&T and used our family dinner table as a focus group.
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I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.
