Anne Michaels Quotes

I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow - moments that made an impression on me.

Anne Michaels

Quotes to Explore

Let's judge a man on what he's done.

Barbara Bush
- Done
- Man
- Judge
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Salvador Dali
- Society
- Respect
- Talent
People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.

Gary Hume
- People
- History
- Taken
Reverence is fatal to literature.

E. M. Forster
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

Carl T. Rowan
- World
- Home
- Injustice
As an actor, you're always worried about getting stuck on a show that's not good because working actors need the paycheck. So being cast on a regular procedural, where everything gets wrapped up by the end of the episode, was always a fear of mine because that doesn't really test you as an actor.

Manny Montana
- Up
- Good
- Fear