Andrei Codrescu Quotes
The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'
Quotes to Explore
-
Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.
-
You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
-
A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
-
When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
-
If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
-
Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
-
Love is more than one thing.
-
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
-
Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
-
I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
-
It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
-
All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
-
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
-
In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
-
I like doing my own stunts.
-
Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
-
I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.
-
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
-
A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.
-
Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.
-
I am always looking for what I think are original voices.
-
But I would argue that a longer war it's more difficult to keep records than a shorter war.
-
People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.
-
The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'
