Wallace Stegner Quotes
Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.
Quotes to Explore
-
Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
-
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
-
I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
-
I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
-
I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
-
I had to have shoulder reconstruction.
-
There is no diplomacy like candor.
-
The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.
-
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
-
I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
-
What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
-
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
-
I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
-
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
-
I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey, don't you?
-
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
-
I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.
-
My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
-
Your body can dictate your mind, so when I walk to a fight a lot of times I'm scared, I'm scared to death, I have a lot of doubts of myself, I'm afraid to fail, I'm afraid to be humiliated in front of everybody; but what happens, I act like it's impossible for me to fail and that my victory is a certainty. So as I'm walking to the Octagon and I act with confidence my body takes over my mind and I become confident for real. As I'm walking I see the change in my mind and when I reach the Octagon I'm a different person, I'm very confident.
-
My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
-
Like a ship, a car should be named after a girl as it's sexy. My original car was called Kate. But then it got smashed at the opening race in Australia. So we called this one Kate's Dirty Sister because it is more aggressive and faster.
-
The show was bad, but I was great.
-
Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.
