Michael Dirda Quotes

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

Michael Dirda

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• I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • Giving

• You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Work
  • Me
  • Myself

• If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • World
  • Change

• I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Foundation

• I'm extremely well recognized in Korea just because of what I do on the ice, and there is a lack of that in Canada because hockey is our sport and it will be for eternity.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Hockey
  • Canada
  • Ice

• It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Women
  • History
  • Vote

• People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Life
  • Art

• I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Truth
  • Feeling
  • Theatre

• You can't be happy if you're not tolerably happy with yourself. The addition of friends adds immeasurably to life.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Happy

• When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Character
  • Think
  • Me

• You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Life
  • Up
  • Control

• I did not grow up singing Yiddish.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Up
  • Singing
  • Grow

• I grew up quick because my family was away a lot, and I took care of my sister. Then in my 20s, I went through my teens, with these 'wild abandon' things.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Family
  • Care

• If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • World
  • Why
  • Girl

• We are not going to win because you have a new head coach, any more than you are going to fix a flat tire by changing the driver. We will win the minute all of us get rid of excuses as to why we can't win and stop wallowing in self-pity.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Why
  • Stop
  • Winning

• Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Power
  • Soul

• Without either the first or second amendment, we would have no liberty; the first allows us to find out what's happening, the second allows us to do something about it! The second will be taken away first, followed by the first and then the rest of our freedoms.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Freedom
  • Rest
  • Taken

• Shorty, let me tell you about my only vice: It has to do with lots of lovin', and it ain't nuttin' nice.

  

  Kamaal Ibn John Fareed A Tribe Called Quest
  • Nice
  • Vices

• The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Machine
  • Directions
  • Brando

• Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world.

  

  Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
  • Choice
  • Artistic
  • Destination

• It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Life
  • Ego

• I still have your pocket watch, my dear father. Like me, it is broken, but stubborn, and still keeps going.

  

  Arno
  • Broken
  • Watch
  • Keep Going

• Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

  

  Michael Dirda
  • Clear
  • Message
  • Faithful