Lorrie Moore Quotes

You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

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• Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Courage

• I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Country
  • Much

• Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Children
  • Money
  • Struggle

• The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • People
  • Faith
  • Light

• Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Time
  • Lake
  • Improve

• Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Good
  • Lying
  • Pressure

• The Internet is an amazing development.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Amazing
  • Internet

• This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Writing
  • Picture
  • Distracted

• It's the messiness of life that ultimately leads you to the most interesting things. Everyone asks what you would do over, and I don't know because then you have this story to tell, and if you did everything over and made it perfect, what would you talk about?

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Perfect

• There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • God
  • Single
  • Angel

• I don't care when I was born, if I'm 50, 60 or 70. It's important that I am alive.

  

  Amanda Lear
  • Important

• If you have a bereavement in your family, it's a terrible, terrible thing. But, you know, time passes. It's part of the cycle. It doesn't hurt so much.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • Time
  • Family
  • Hurt

• Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Listening

• The strongest, richest, greatest nation in the world shouldn't leave anyone behind.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • World

• I used to say when I was younger, 'I'm exhausted; writers can only write for four hours a day and that's done.' Now I find, as I'm getting older and I'm more aware of time, I can actually write all day.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Time
  • Done

• I don't really know too many designers. I like a lot of what Kanye West has done with Yeezy, but I think it's a bit too, how you say, elevated; it's a little bit too special. Like he's trying to make something that's kind of a little bit too cool sometimes.

  

  Kygo
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Cool

• Our milk chocolate is very chocolaty. In fact, we don't call it milk chocolate - we call it milky chocolate.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Chocolate

• It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

  

  Charley Pride
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Stop

• Music is in everything I do.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Music

• I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.

  

  Hector Elizondo
  • Radio
  • 1946

• I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew

• When I think about the books I've written, it probably takes 150,000-200,000 words to get a 50,000 page book. Highlighting something and hitting Cmd-X is second nature.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Book
  • Nature
  • Words

• All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.

  

  Norwood Russell Hanson
  • Theory
  • Observation
  • Data

• You know, as fiction writers, if our instincts are off, we can't pay our bills.

  

  Lorrie Moore