Michael Winter Quotes
The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'
Quotes to Explore
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
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Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
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I loved being in a band.
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It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
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Being a gentleman is a worthy goal.
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.
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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
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I've taken great pride in not being fragile.
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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
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There's backlash about everything I do.
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I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.
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Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
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When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the Northeast in the early '60s - you're not necessarily listening to the band and thinking about the lead singer, or the story of the group, or the context or the mythology of the group. You're just listening to the song and whether or not it has a hook.
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The city of man requires idolatry. All must bow before the symbol of its total claim. Religion is tolerated when it supports the claims of the state, party, the institutional hierarchy. But those who say, "We must obey God rather than men" are always condemned as traitors or exiled as aliens. Yet the calling of Christ's kingdom no only separates a man from the world, it also sends him to the world. In this time of the kingdom we are pilgrims, for the mountain of Christ's rule is the heavenly Zion; but in the task of the kingdom we are ambassadors, for we have been sent by the King to proclaim his terms of peace to his rebellious realm.
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The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'
