Chad Harbach Quotes

Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.

Chad Harbach

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• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • World
  • Environmental

• A leader is a dealer in hope.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Hope
  • Leadership
  • Leader

• Now when we talk of brotherhood of men, we stop there and feel that all other life is there for man to exploit for his own purposes. But Hinduism excludes all exploitation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Men
  • Stop

• Everywhere I am folded, there I am a lie.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke

• Sure, call me any ugly name you choose - The steel of freedom does not stain. From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, We must take back our land again, America!

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Live
  • America

• We play fair and we play hard. If we win the game we win, if we lose the game, we lose.

  

  Jason Williams
  • Game

• I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Up
  • Painting
  • Wall

• I'm not really worried about writer's block.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People

• For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

  

  Bernard Katz
  • Long
  • Power
  • Remember

• I know these jokes aren't great, ladies and gentlemen, see this is the problem you run into when you're between impeachments.

  

  David Letterman
  • Great

• There's different ways to win in this league. It's not always going to be pretty.

  

  Jimmy Garoppolo
  • Different
  • Pretty

• I was kind of broke . 'The Girl on the Train' was a last roll of the dice for me as a fiction writer.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • Girl

• Before even Court Grip, I just wanted to be a part of a brand that I felt that listened to the athlete and really catered to the athlete, and gave us what we were looking for.

  

  Dwyane Wade
  • Athlete

• The one thing I will say for digital, and you won't hear me say that many complimentary things about it, is that it's cheap. It pretty much enables anybody to record as long as you can deal with the sound.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
  • Long
  • Pretty

• There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

  

  Anthony Charles Edwards
  • Children
  • Home
  • Father

• The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

  

  Lord Hailsham
  • True
  • Passion
  • Religious

• Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

  

  Charles de Lint
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Man
  • Revelation

• I can't cook to save my life.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Immortality
  • Immortal

• Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • World
  • Soul
  • Reality