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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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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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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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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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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But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.
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We have to defeat ISIS. That is my highest counterterrorism goal.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.
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When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.
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I'd never imagined myself writing at all until I was almost 30. And horror films weren't to my taste, at least the super popular (slasher-y) ones of the day back then. The first novel I ever loved as a kid was Frankenstein, and I was always a crazy Hitchcock and Polanski fan... but I never saw myself - a square spazzy girl from the suburbs - writing anything that would horrify anyone. Or so I thought.
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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?'
