Michael Chabon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
-
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.
-
I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
-
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.
-
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
-
Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
-
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.
-
From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
-
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
-
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
-
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.
-
Put your shoulder to the wheel.
-
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.
-
There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chance to make a movie; it's all about what somebody is going to make back. There are not a lot of romantic ideas about making movies anymore.
-
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.
-
My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.
-
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
-
I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?
-
Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.
