Alison McGhee Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-
A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
-
I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
-
What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.
-
I've only been to New Zealand once, about 1989. It was incredibly beautiful, kind of like the ideal of where I live in New England - all that and then some - but I can't say I was there long enough to get any very clear idea.
-
I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
-
I don't like having to be pushed into a box.
-
As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
-
The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.
-
Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.
-
I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
-
People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.
-
There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.
-
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
-
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
-
I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
-
When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.
-
The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.
-
Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.
-
So it's discouraging and, yet, when you make a movie like Wonder Boys, in a sense it's its own reward, because it does move people, it gets great reviews, and it becomes part of that library of movies that exist out there. As time goes by, it will find its audience.
-
It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.
-
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.
-
My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.
-
Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.
