Irwin Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
-
In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
-
On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
-
I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
-
The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
-
Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
-
If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
-
I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.
-
The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
-
My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
-
The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
-
I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
-
Do I believe in coupling? Do I believe in commitment? Do I believe in co-parenting, raising children together, having a family, and growing old with someone? I absolutely believe in all of those things. I just don't believe that you need to be married to do that. I love going to weddings, though. I do love a good wedding.
-
I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
-
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
-
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
-
I think the kind of films and roles I do takes a whole year... I think it is justified. At some point, we have to come to that place where we are equally paid. It is a small step... we are headed to that direction.
-
All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
-
Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
-
Our universe - it's three-dimensional, but we can pretend it's two-dimensional so it's like this sheet of paper - and we live in Pasadena over here and London is over there, and it's thousands of miles from Pasadena to London.
-
There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old who are really into going to lyric websites, hitting print, and printing lyrics for every song that's popular.
-
Writing books that people want to read is helpful - my most successful book is my only police procedural, a very popular subgenre of the very popular crime fiction genre.
-
It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.
-
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
