Ethan Canin Quotes

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

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• You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Isolation

• With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Win
  • President
  • Member

• For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
  • Space
  • Wise

• A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • World
  • Like
  • More

• Your best teacher is your last mistake.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Best
  • Mistake
  • Teacher

• I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • People
  • Book
  • Questions

• Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Best

• Happiness needs one-upmanship.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Happiness
  • Needs

• 'You know Adam?' Teddy asked him.'Do I know who?''Adam. In the Bible.'Nicholson smiled. 'Not personally,' he said dryly.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Bible

• I have never ever argued about billings because I don’t think that they mean anything.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan

• Who shall count up the evil brood that is born from power - the pitiful fear, the madness, the despair, the overpowering craving for revenge, the treachery, the unmeasured cruelty?

  

  Auberon Herbert
  • Up
  • Power
  • Fear

• I loved 'Homeland' - it's such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Hero
  • Intelligent

• It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Smile
  • Ignorance

• To me, I've played full seasons and had success. Mentally, I've been through it before. I'm not incapable of going through this.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Success

• We live in the public eye, so if one of us makes a mistake, it affects everyone, which makes me think about what I'm doing in life more.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mistake

• Some other things I don't miss: the media and the pressure of just being asked to do, and being asked questions every day.

  

  Pedro Martinez

• I think I have had so much blessing - I've had my brother, who was brilliant - I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother - Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Family
  • Brother

• Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • People
  • Why
  • Band

• I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.

  

  Lauren Willig
  • School

• A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Opportunity
  • Sacrifice

• As long as I hold tightly to something, I believe I own it. But when I give it away, I relinquish control, power, and prestige. When I realize that God has a claim not merely on the few dollars I might choose to throw in an offering plate, not simply on 10 percent or even 50 percent, but on 100 percent of "my" money, it's revolutionary. If I'm God's money manager, I'm not God. Money isn't God. God is God. So God, money, and I are each put in our rightful place.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Power
  • Control
  • Prestige

• Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not how literature should be. You probably do learn something from every book you pick up, but it might be simply how to laugh.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Children
  • Book

• He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White House, and has proposed a program which is absolutely impossible to carry out except by a revision of the Constitution.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • House
  • Impossible
  • Constitution

• I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Power
  • Fascinated
  • Ruthless