Mika (Michael Holbrook Penniman Jr.) Quotes

The one thing about me is that I don’t even know where I’ll end up, and I don’t know what I’ll be doing but I know that I’ll never really stop.

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• Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • May
  • Character

• I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Food
  • Countries

• What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Facts
  • Fact
  • Deeper

• I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Myself

• When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Hair
  • Grow

• When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Nice
  • Always
  • Street

• Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • World
  • Me
  • Loved

• Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Art
  • Comedy
  • Famous

• What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Believe
  • Happy

• When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Focus
  • Goals
  • Economy

• When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • She
  • Mom
  • Said

• The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Men
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Pride

• I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Listening

• If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Children
  • Will
  • Islam

• I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Great
  • Country
  • Freedom

• I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Truth

• We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • World
  • Good
  • Know

• I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Dream
  • Know
  • Lost

• Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Great
  • Funny

• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.

  

  Malcolm X
  • God
  • Man
  • Earth

• The one thing about me is that I don’t even know where I’ll end up, and I don’t know what I’ll be doing but I know that I’ll never really stop.

  

  Mika
  • Know
  • Really
  • One