Chad Harbach Quotes

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

Chad Harbach

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Daily
  • Lunch

• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Up
  • Football

• I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Style
  • Create
  • Vintage

• The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This thing that was supposed to bring us closer together, I see it doing the opposite.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Together
  • Doing
  • Internet

• You are what you think.

  

  Ben Carson

• I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.

  

  Angus King

• By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Strong
  • Stock

• When I'm in the mood for room service, my favorite order is a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Service
  • Mood

• I think Rudimental was a massive part of my life and such a great place and people and learning curve to be a part of.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• Just so that we are clear on this, I am in favour of teaching children about different beliefs. I am not in favour of indoctrinating them in any particular belief, including my own: these issues should be presented as beliefs, not as fact.

  

  Liz Williams
  • Different
  • Children

• News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Work

• Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

  

  Aime Cesaire
  • Sacrifice

• I was always into punk, ever since I was 13, but I was into other stuff, too - like, well, the Spice Girls. I really liked Scary Spice.

  

  Alice Dellal
  • Scary

• People try to change up my method, but I'm gonna keep doing it the same way I've been doing it: going in the room by myself and making a song.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• My mother was a writer. She acted in one film before she decided that Bollywood wasn't good enough for her. My two sisters and I probably learned from her how to get under other people's skin. In contrast, my father was a simple man despite his success at business. He was a people person, and I think that's what led him to join politics.

  

  Anand Mahindra
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

  

  Joe Barton
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• Climate change is one of those stories that deserves more attention, that we all talk about, but we haven't figured out how to engage the audience in that story in a meaningful way. When we do do those stories, there does tend to be a tremendous amount of lack of interest on the audience's part.

  

  Jeff Zucker
  • Attention
  • Meaningful

• I struggled with a lot of doubts around my songwriting and around what I was and what my purpose and mission were.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Purpose

• Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Sad

• Don't hire anyone - no matter what they offer - who promises you they'll sell 'X' copies of your book. Every book is different. The best any marketing company or PR firm can do for your book is make potential readers aware of it.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Different
  • Book
  • Best

• I want a guy who's going to be accepting of - one, my big 'ol, loud Mexican family - and also my career, because it's a lot. I don't want someone who's like... 'Oh, you don't have time for me'. Like, I want somebody who's sure of himself and gonna be like, 'Okay, you go do your thing, and when you come back, we're good.'

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family

• There's a danger of some of the best people saying, 'I don't want a career in science.'

  

  John Gurdon
  • People
  • Career
  • Science

• To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

  

  Chad Harbach