George Plimpton Quotes

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life.

George Plimpton

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• My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Job
  • Desire
  • Artist

• I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Young
  • Hearing
  • Rumors

• I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Husband
  • First
  • Dress

• Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Small
  • inspirational

• My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.

  

  Zendaya
  • School
  • Parents
  • Helping

• If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • House
  • Earth
  • Words

• And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Think
  • Singing
  • Opera

• You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Think
  • Know
  • Relationships

• To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Night
  • Judge

• I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Music
  • Long
  • Job

• Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

  

  Ovid
  • Women
  • Same
  • Just

• Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Scholarship
  • Yale

• I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Music
  • Long
  • Need

• Aretha Franklin was tough. She turned out to be good, but she was, you know, she was - she's a very - she's a very wonderful, but in some ways, shy woman. You don't think about that when you see how she emotes and performs.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Good
  • She

• The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Stop
  • Fall
  • Curiosity

• I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

  

  Deion Sanders
  • Life
  • Great
  • Father

• Hospitality is almost impossible to teach. It's all about hiring the right people.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People

• I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People
  • Shine

• 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

• Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.

  

  Brad Henry
  • Life
  • Great
  • Education

• In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Faith

• Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

  

  John Hurt
  • Life
  • Perspective

• We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

  

  Anne Carson
  • World
  • Creation

• Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life.

  

  George Plimpton
  • Life
  • Write
  • To Do