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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• When we were kids, I remember we'd use lemon in our hair and go into the sun, hoping it would make us blond. Obviously, I have very dark hair and olive skin, and when I was a kid, I wanted to be blond, of course. It never worked.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Dark

• I walk in the world as a woman because I am a woman, and people should take me as that. I'm not passing as anything that I'm not. I'm just being myself.

  

  Janet Mock
  • People
  • World

• Why would a married couple that lives together every day need to date each other? It's precisely because they live and sleep together.

  

  William J Doherty
  • Together
  • Sleep
  • Marriage

• Feminism is something I think about more when I watch the film, Christine, rather than when I was actually doing it, to be honest with you. But I do think it functions as a sort of interesting feministic critique, because you are seeing a woman who's resolutely incapable of behaving like the kind of woman that's acceptable at the time. She doesn't know how to play the game by everyone else's rules, and it makes you realize that actually there were rules that were functioning for a woman to be a careerist.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Film
  • Rules
  • Feminism

• Everything shifted for me after 'Rush.' It wasn't as financially successful as other things I'd done, but it gave me more movement, more options, more doors opening, more meetings. All of a sudden, it's, 'Oh, wow! You're an actor!'

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • Done

• The past still had its future.

  

  Bel Kaufman
  • Future

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

  

  Michael Chabon
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Force