Wallace Stegner Quotes

You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

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• We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Positive
  • Possible
  • Negative

• One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• 'The Lunchbox' is the kind of cinema that is true to its word and not cluttered or corrupted by some of the mainstream pre-requisites. I love the way I make movies, but there are certain stories that need to be told in a certain way, and 'The Lunchbox' is that movie, and I'm so proud to present this movie.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Kind
  • Proud
  • Stories

• I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Love

• I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Song
  • Player
  • Guitar

• Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

  

  Quintilian
  • Ambition
  • Times
  • Often

• I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Growing

• I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Country
  • House

• The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Business
  • Soul
  • Talent

• I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • College
  • Football
  • Sports

• Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Job
  • Cricket
  • Committee

• I know that people in fashion and people in general hate to be filmed.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Hate
  • Fashion

• I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Happy
  • Rich
  • Concentration

• At the time I was writing the second album, I was sitting home in my underwear all day every day; I didn't have all that much to write about except for my own life and my family.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Feel
  • Working
  • Mixing

• I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.

  

  Larry David
  • Know
  • Happen
  • Dialogue

• Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Book
  • Well
  • Memoir

• Thoughts are like airplanes flying in the air. If you ignore them, there is no problem. If you pay attention to them, you create an airport inside your head and permit them to land!

  

  Elder Paisios of Mount Athos
  • Thoughts
  • Create
  • Ignore

• We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.

  

  Steven Burd
  • Country
  • Health
  • Insurance

• The House of Belonging is your birthright; it is part of your Happily Everafter, whether you are married, single, divorced, widowed, with or without children. The blueprints of your House of Belonging exist as spiritual energy and hover over your head-ready, when you are, to be pulled down from Heaven to shelter your Soul on Earth.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Children
  • Soul
  • House

• I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Husband
  • Married

• You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Married
  • Marry