Alice Munro Quotes

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

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• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Start

• The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Think
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Most
  • Arrested

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Mother
  • Legal

• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

  E. B. White
  • Always
  • Complicated
  • Limit

• We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Love
  • Weird

• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Think
  • Me
  • Company

• If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Great
  • Attitude
  • Fat

• I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Live
  • Sometimes
  • Bus

• I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Future
  • Guy
  • Crazy

• On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Planet
  • Most

• Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Never

• I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Family
  • Home
  • Him

• I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • People
  • Important
  • Questions

• I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

  

  Damian Marley
  • School
  • High
  • Cat

• One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

  

  Edward Albee
  • Mind

• The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.

  

  Kyle Abraham
  • Dance
  • Prince
  • Ballet

• I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.

  

  Octave Chanute
  • Believe
  • Flight
  • Machines

• The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

  

  George Richards Minot
  • Men
  • Land
  • Independence

• If religion commands universal charity, to love our neighbors as ourselves, to forgive and pray for all our enemies without any reserve; it is because all degrees of love are degrees of happiness, that strengthen and support the Divine life of the soul, and are as necessary to its health and happiness, as proper food is necessary to the health and happiness of the body.

  

  William Law
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Religion

• In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

  

  Alice Munro
  • Life