Alice McDermott Quotes

No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'

Alice McDermott

Quotes to Explore

It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

Adam Braun
The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

Adam McKay
- World
- Weird
- Someone
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

Samuel Beckett
- Body
- Window
- Throw
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.

N. K. Jemisin
- Growing
- Without
- Romance
My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!

Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
- Different
- Women
- Thought
What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
- Done
- Why
- Today