Charles D'Ambrosio (Charles Anthony D'Ambrosio, Jr) Quotes

I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently, I suppose.

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• Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • World
  • Real
  • Progress

• That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Like
  • Songs
  • Make

• Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Think
  • Me
  • Story

• Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • America
  • Doing
  • Wonderful

• Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Alone
  • Confidence

• I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Experience
  • Religious
  • Never

• One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Art
  • Eyes
  • Pencil

• There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!

  

  Bailee Madison
  • God
  • Fun
  • Amazing

• I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Perfect
  • Thought
  • Child

• Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Why
  • Man
  • Him

• The United States and the Obama administration have consistently opposed the delegitimation of Israel. We've also consistently pushed for legitimation of Israel across the U.N. system. We uniformly oppose one-sided actions designed to punish Israel, and we will continue to do so.

  

  Samantha Power
  • System
  • Actions
  • Israel

• Well, here's what I'll say: The storytellers of 'Lost' have taken us on a pretty great journey, and there have been questions along the way, and criticisms along the way, but if you look at the totality of the show, or the experience of it as a whole, I think as long as you look at it from that perspective you'll be happy.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • Great
  • Long
  • Experience

• Here is a list of fearful things:The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,The rabid bite of the dog's of war,The voice of one who went before.But most of all the mirror's gaze,which counts us out our numbered days.

  

  Clive Barker
  • War
  • Dog
  • Mirror

• I don't think when I make love.

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• Dad never interferes in our personal matters. He is a very candid person and knows where to draw the line. He is always there for all of us in the family.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Family
  • Dad

• The world in the '90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where we were all going. Consumer capitalism with some sort of social conscience. Then 9/11 happened, and that illusion was blown out of the water.

  

  David Farr
  • World
  • History
  • Water

• And, actually it was interesting because I had done a lot of traveling in the United States and Canada and Mexico on my motorcycle; and I was really, it was the first time I had really gotten out of the Minnesota area to speak of.

  

  Duane G. Carey
  • Time
  • Done
  • Interesting

• That's not an accident that Donald Trump didn't begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • American
  • Trump
  • President

• Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

  

  Scott McNealy
  • Digital
  • Microsoft
  • Nervous System

• My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • People
  • Work
  • Democracy

• I have confidence in my players around me - my offensive line, my running backs, my wide receivers, and the defense and special teams.

  

  Chad Kelly
  • Running
  • Confidence

• I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • World
  • Real
  • Business

• I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently, I suppose.

  

  Charles D'Ambrosio
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