Michael Cunningham Quotes

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

Michael Cunningham

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• We want to bridge the digital gap to provide broadband access to 100 per cent of our educational institutions and to make it widely available to all people.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • People
  • Want
  • Bridge

• My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Editor
  • Publisher

• And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Life
  • Political
  • Creation

• All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Best
  • Golf

• In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Power
  • End

• All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • School
  • High
  • Opportunity

• I'm not that interested in people.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • People
  • Interested

• Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own skating. And whether you are a skater or a dancer, without sounding narcissistic, it is all about looking in the mirror.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • School
  • American

• Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!

  

  Jack Layton
  • Time
  • Woodshed
  • Stephen Harper

• The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Age
  • Present
  • Identity

• And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Society

• You need to dream a bigger dream for yourself. That is the lesson. Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • True
  • Dream

• Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Learning
  • Lies

• To possess both wisdom and compassion is the heart of our human revolution. If you have wisdom alone and lack compassion, it will be a cold, perverse wisdom. If you have compassion alone and lack wisdom, you cannot give happiness to others. You are even likely to lead them in the wrong direction, and you won't be able to achieve your own happiness.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Alone

• I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Men
  • War

• I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • See
  • Wrong
  • Laws

• On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Death

• When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Today
  • Picture
  • Politics

• The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.

  

  Michael Chertoff
  • Country
  • Dollars
  • Department

• I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love.

  

  Banks
  • Good
  • Right
  • Secret

• Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret

  

  Betty Smith
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

  

  Michael Cunningham
  • Secret
  • Laws
  • Immediately