Ethan Canin Quotes

I really enjoy the immediacy of the 'knife and gun clubs,' as they're so callously called. Emergency is a great place to learn about people.

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• A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Teacher
  • Dog
  • Theory

• Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Always
  • Same
  • News

• A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Mind
  • Hold
  • Lays

• This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Done
  • Think

• The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Path
  • Broken
  • Friendships

• How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Childhood
  • Times
  • Repeat

• Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Follow

• Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Small
  • Action
  • Rest

• Asia is changing, and China is changing. The 'Post' will have great opportunities. With its access to Alibaba's resources, data, and all the relationships in our ecosystem, the 'Post' can report on Asia and China more accurately compared with other media that have no such access.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Great
  • Media
  • Opportunities

• I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being something more than the normal world.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • World
  • Always
  • Daydreaming

• The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Important
  • Vision
  • Eye

• I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Energy

• I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Dark
  • Laughter

• When I don't know what to wear, I wear black lace.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Black
  • Know
  • Lace

• I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • Funny

• I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Inspired

• Everybody needs somebody.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Relationship
  • Needs

• After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Soul
  • Past
  • Die

• I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Hate
  • Try

• The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Immortal
  • Knife
  • Permanent

• Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I can smell blood, Elena,” Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. “Are you trying to flirt?

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Trying
  • Walking
  • Blood

• Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Inspiration

• I really enjoy the immediacy of the 'knife and gun clubs,' as they're so callously called. Emergency is a great place to learn about people.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Learn
  • Enjoy
  • Knife