Ethan Canin Quotes

It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.

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• The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Important
  • House

• In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Voices

• When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • People
  • Country
  • Future

• Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.

  

  Lars Feld
  • Need
  • Limits
  • Without

• I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Time
  • College
  • New York

• I always loved to gamble. I never got close to a horse. Fate dealt me a terrible blow when it gave me a good horse the first time out. I thought how easy this is. Now I love being around them.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Love

• In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Different
  • Done
  • Comedy

• It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Conduct

• There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Pleasure

• I went out into the world when I was about 22. I wrote books and I illustrated books and did book covers, and I taught tap-dancing, and I was a model in the art school. I had no ability for any of those things, but what else could I do?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • School
  • Art

• What is important is how much service you can give the world and how much you can get done and how much better you can make things.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • World
  • Important
  • Done

• Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature...

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• I don't know about you, but when they first introduced bottled water, I thought it was so funny, I was like "Bottled water! Haha, they're selling bottled water! ... I guess I'll try it. Ah, this is good, this is more watery than water. Yeah, this has got a water kick to it."

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Trying
  • Funny
  • Water

• There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • Stressful
  • Reminding

• Peace comes through understanding.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Peace
  • Understanding
  • Through

• Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS

  

  William Lloyd Garrison
  • Political
  • Effort
  • Compromise

• I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better ... circle, dance, shuffle, hit and move ... make an art out of it.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Move
  • Hated
  • Monsters

• Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.

• The funniest people are the saddest once.

  

  Confucius
  • People
  • Funny
  • Saddest

• It's interesting, once I have convinced people that, yes, I have a sister with a mental disability, the retard jokes really dry up, so I'm not sure how much retard humor is really going on out there, but I imagine there's a lot because it's a pretty safe group to make fun of. It's not like the Retards of America are gonna rise up and organize a protest. They're not gonna write letters. They only just recently got the Supreme Court to stop executing them.

  

  Bonnie McFarlane
  • Interesting
  • Imagine
  • Safe

• It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.

  

  Ethan Canin
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  • Poets
  • Fiction Writer