Steven Millhauser Quotes

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

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• The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Future
  • Hand
  • Security

• When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• Also, now as a result of that show being on, the cruise industry is just growing all over the place. Princess Cruises, who I now represent, is the fastest growning cruise line in the world.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • World
  • Growing
  • Princess

• I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Life
  • God
  • Success

• It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Poverty
  • Issues

• God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • God
  • Jesus

• One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.

  

  Antonio Banderas
  • Work
  • Money

• Owing to the vibratory power of words, whatever man voices, he begins to attract.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Power
  • Words
  • Vibratory

• I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Kind
  • Language
  • Effects

• It's not my vision when I cover a woman's face with a chador. I got the idea from a 'National Geographic' photo. I'm just showing their plight in the world.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • World
  • Vision
  • Face

• Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women - that were specifically just about existing and weren't necessarily racialized or were centered around race.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Up
  • Women
  • Black

• It's fascinating to me: when it comes to innovation in policy, it all comes from the states, ... It reflects an abject failure of policy (at the national level) in terms of dealing with energy, the environment or the securities industry. And into that void, the states have stepped.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Failure

• It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Drunk

• We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Beautiful

• Gratitude is like a flashlight. It lights up what is already there. You don't necessarily have anything more or different, but suddenly you can actually see what it is. And because you can see, you no longer take it for granted.

  

  M. J. Ryan
  • Up
  • Different
  • Light

• Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Great
  • Small

• Looking up at the stars and smoking in silence.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Silence
  • Stars
  • Looking Up

• If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Work
  • Way
  • Stories

• There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Stories

• I don't send and receive messages on Snapchat; I never have. Stories is the only feature I use. I think of them becoming a more dynamic social network, and I think it's great.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Stories
  • Use
  • Feature

• Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

  

  Steven Millhauser
  • Stories
  • Tricks
  • Invented