Ethan Canin Quotes
There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.
Ethan Canin
Quotes to Explore
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
Victoria Pendleton
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
Kate Bosworth
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
Becky Lynch
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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
Tanya Tucker
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It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.
Ian Bremmer
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
Manuel Puig
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It's not easy to have it all. Frankly, you know, you have to give as much to the career that the career requires and, at the same time, you have to give as much to the family as the attention that's required.
Chanda Kochhar
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Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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In the battle between Kronecker and Cantor, Cantor would ultimately prevail. Cantor's theory would show that Kronecker's precious integers-and even the rational numbers-were nothing at all. They were an infinite zero.
Charles Seife
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There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.
Ethan Canin
