Michael Carbonaro Quotes
Alan Funt was the first hidden-camera magician. It was the playful nature of the way he worked that really inspired me. A lot of prank shows and hidden-camera shows can be a little mean-spirited. Funt was never like that.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
-
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
-
My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.
-
Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
-
I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
-
In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
-
These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
-
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
-
I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
-
A good fight scene is really a good love scene.
-
We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.
-
Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.
-
I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
-
I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
-
When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.
-
SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away
-
The senior director at the NSC for the Middle East is retired Col. Derek Harvey, an Arabic-speaking intelligence officer with a Ph.D. who served as the head of the U.S. military cell examining the insurgency in Iraq in 2003.
-
The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.
-
Where educators are raising and combining their voices, the seeds of positive change have emerged. Collective voice, exercised through the union, is power - the power to drive real change for our kids, families and communities.
-
The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.
-
Literature has low enough standards. But we can avoid writing the worst literature if we make ourselves ask ourselves, every two or three sentences we write, 'Is that what I really think?'
-
The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its inception as a city. I'm always excited about the possibility of what might happen. That's what drives us, and I think that's the spirit of New Orleans and the spirit of jazz.
-
I'm always inspired by people who have really cool Twitter profiles.
-
Alan Funt was the first hidden-camera magician. It was the playful nature of the way he worked that really inspired me. A lot of prank shows and hidden-camera shows can be a little mean-spirited. Funt was never like that.
