Irwin Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
-
For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
-
I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
-
I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
-
I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
-
I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
-
If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
-
You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
-
I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
-
The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.
-
Water for People is a non-profit international organization that brings together communities, entrepreneurs, governments - people - to create solutions that empower people to maintain their own reliable water systems and sanitation.
-
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
-
In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
-
Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.
-
Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
-
I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.
-
I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
-
The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.
-
Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest.
-
My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.
-
Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force into an immovable object.
-
As a child, during the war, I drew Spitfires and Messerschmitts. With Spot, I found that I had designed a fuselage! His spot is on his side, the roundel marking of an English fighter plane, and the color bar of his tail is the color stripes of a plane's rudder.
-
We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
-
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
