Michael Chabon Quotes

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

Michael Chabon

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• I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.

  

  Imelda May
  • Good
  • Music
  • Me

• I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • People
  • Good
  • Attitude

• As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • You
  • Change
  • Opinion

• Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Husband

• Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Smart

• From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Man

• From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Great
  • Mistake
  • View

• Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • True

• When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Know
  • Band
  • Difficult

• I think comedy does have that powerful thing that doesn't seem too preachy because you're also making people laugh, so it's really kind of a good tool for messaging.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy

• We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Different
  • Need
  • First

• Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • True
  • Fun

• The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • World
  • Man
  • Habit

• In misery's darkest cavern known,His useful care was ever nighWhere hopeless anguish pour'd his groan,And lonely want retir'd to die.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Die
  • Lonely

• Put your shoulder to the wheel.

  

  Aesop

• I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Inspiration
  • Drummer
  • Drum

• I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor

• The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • World
  • God

• I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • World
  • Done
  • Remember

• Rex is 60 years old with 13 million images and 10 million in archive. It's the first time we've had a historic archive to work with, which is super interesting.

  

  Jon Oringer
  • Time
  • Work
  • Interesting

• My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

  

  Colin Firth
  • People
  • Up
  • Parents

• It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

  

  LeVar Burton
  • World
  • True
  • Today

• What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Drug

• Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

  

  Michael Chabon
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Force