Michael Ondaatje Quotes

We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

Michael Ondaatje

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• I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Life
  • Book
  • Trade

• And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • She
  • Moving

• One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Live
  • Day

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Marriage

• Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Political
  • Mistake
  • Organization

• I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Growing
  • Speak
  • Musicians

• Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Age
  • Path
  • Nothing

• Freedom is popular. Bring it on.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Freedom
  • Popular
  • Bring

• I feel very meditative when I ride. A horse does not know whether my movie is a hit or a flop or what is happening in my relationship.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Movie
  • Relationship
  • Horse

• On Friday night, if you want to go out on a date with your wife or your girlfriend, nothing on Netflix competes with that, right? Because you're getting out; that's what you're doing. If you don't want to put your shoes on, nothing in the cinema competes with the worst thing on Netflix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Shoes

• Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World

• Standing alone,eager to just believe,it's good enough to be what you really are,but in your heart,uncertainty forever lies,and you'll always be,somewhere on the outside.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Heart

• He's one of my closest friends in the industry. He makes me feel like a teenager - I have to act and think like an adult so much. He makes me feel young again.

  

  Rihanna
  • Friends
  • Teenager

• Princess Peach is in many ways the quintessential stock-character version of the damsel in distress.

  

  Anita Sarkeesian
  • Character
  • Stock
  • Princess

• Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • You
  • Tears
  • Cry

• Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my sorrow, gently fall my tears, Lest my sad tale should reach the alien's ears: Bid Fame be dumb, and tremble to proclaim In heathen Gath, or Ascalon, our shame Lest proud Philistia, lest our haughty foe, With impious scorn insult our solemn woe.

  

  William Somervile
  • Fall
  • Proud
  • Lying

• In the prepping for 'Azkaban,' I read 'Azkaban' and 'Goblet of Fire.'

  

  David Thewlis
  • Fire

• What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

  

  Augustus Hare
  • Character

• No matter how many people try, no matter how many fancy songwriters in Los Angeles try to break it down to a formula... to an extent, there isn't a science to writing great songs, I suppose. For me, it's always about melody - it doesn't matter what genre of music you're writing, if there's a strong melodic thing somewhere, whether that's in a vocal or in a guitar part or a sample. Something that sticks in your brain, that seems to be something that works.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.

  

  Michael Ondaatje
  • Tears
  • Them
  • Reduced