Edgar Friedenberg Quotes
Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.
Edgar Friedenberg
Quotes to Explore
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There’s people all over these parts, and maybe beyond, who think, as you said, that nobody can be wise alone. So these people try to hold to each other.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Did Romeo and Juliet have a … 'relationship'? The term 'relationship' … betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.
Allan Bloom
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Oh, in France you can't defame an idea, only a person.
Pierre Dukan
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I started playing guitar when I was eight. Well, I started piano and really liked it but never practiced, but it taught me how to read music, and then my mom signed me up for guitar lessons, and I connected to that way more.
Kerris Dorsey
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In high school, my prom date fooled around with another guy - on prom night!
Matthew Perry
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Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
Tyne Daly
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Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. ... You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.
Charlie Parker
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We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there.
John Anderson
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
Sally Mann
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Everything. She lives with a profound confidence that he holds the whole world (including her) in his hands.
Carolyn Custis James
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Most Canadians don't understand the House of Commons. They turn on their televisions, see us yelling at one another, and dismiss us as a bunch of fools.
Jean Chretien
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Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.
Edgar Friedenberg
