Ethan Canin Quotes

Feeling useful in medicine allows me to not feel so stupid when making up stories.

Ethan Canin

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• Love is a beautiful feeling.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• My son was born somewhat late in my life and I just found myself really feeling like I didn't want to miss out on being a parent and being with him, and not wanting a situation where I was constantly pulled back and forth between being present, and having all these other pressures and considerations.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Rest
  • Wonder
  • Stupid

• I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the story are less read, and I lose interest.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Feeling
  • Story
  • Start

• I hate that stupid old pickup truckYou never let me drive.You're a redneck heartbreakWho's really bad at lying.So watch me strike a matchOn all my wasted time.As far as I'm concerned you'reJust another picture to burn.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Hate

• What's interesting is, in the months leading up to this, I was probably at the lowest ebb in my life. I was feeling just teenage angst. I didn't know if I wanted to continue living - that kind of despair. I was praying to a God I didn't know was listening.

  

  Bono U2
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It's just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I wish the American public wasn't so stupid if they realized that half the people on television make a living just to insult the other party.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • People
  • American
  • Party

• Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Good
  • Work
  • Feeling

• We're self obsessed and mad and stupid - not that other people can't be the same way - but the extremes are kind of honest in some mad way. Anyway, I like them.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Mad

• If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.

  

  Bob Dole
  • Feeling

• I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina
  • Feeling
  • Childhood

• I've always loved color because it's a little bit like music. I love that it seems to be both physical and ephemeral and engages us as a metaphor for our feeling lives.

  

  Jessica Stockholder
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Color

• I've been pretty damn happy since 2001. More apparent danger than real danger for me, and even the apparent danger hasn't kept me from feeling warm, safe and loved. I've found love and a partner to raise three children that I'm glad to have brought into this beautiful world.

  

  Douglas Brunt
  • World
  • Children
  • Real

• When I was a teenager, I remember the extraordinary feeling of accomplishment for completing 'Vanity Fair.' I don't think it was even for school.

  

  John Lithgow
  • School
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.

  

  Marion Marechal-Le Pen
  • Society
  • Feeling
  • Desire

• As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine the fruit that's hanging on the tree of America, and I can see that it's rotting. And that concerns me deeply.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • Country
  • America
  • Soul

• The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me...

  

  Mary Shelley
  • May
  • Feeling

• This is a work that cannot be completed except by a society of men of letters and skilled workmen, each working separately on his own part, but all bound together solely by their zeal for the best interests of the human race and a feeling of mutual good will.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• I wish I didn't like sweets as much as I do. I wish I didn't get carried away sometimes.

  

  James Corden
  • Wish

• I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication... Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously...

  

  Lee De Forest
  • Great
  • May
  • Communication

• People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Feeling useful in medicine allows me to not feel so stupid when making up stories.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Feeling
  • Stupid
  • Medicine