Alice Munro Quotes

'The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, and you're just there, going along easy in the world.'

Alice Munro

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• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Time
  • World
  • She

• Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • World
  • Game
  • Best

• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Tree

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Brother

• Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Time
  • World
  • Now

• A stylist understands our body language; they know what works and what doesn't. I'm happy this concept has caught on in the South film industry.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Happy
  • Language
  • Body

• My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.

  

  Zendaya
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Like

• I want to work with the best coaches in the world.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • World
  • Work
  • Best

• I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Live
  • Learn

• Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
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• The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • World
  • Different
  • Man

• Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • World
  • Movie
  • Stars

• People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • Believe
  • Credit

• So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep that way, it's a good way to be.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Light
  • Land

• I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The euro must be defended, or uncertainty about the European Union will be widespread.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Will
  • Uncertainty
  • Euro

• I want Americans to know that Guantánamo​ happened not to monsters, but to men. Innocent men.

  

  Lakhdar Boumediene
  • Men
  • Guantánamo

• 'The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, and you're just there, going along easy in the world.'

  

  Alice Munro
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe