Carol Shields Quotes

I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

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• U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Know

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Hope
  • Always

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Face

• If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Today
  • Thought
  • Wise

• I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Love
  • Want
  • Find

• Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.

  

  Abraham Robinson
  • Voice
  • Organization
  • Research

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Black
  • Red
  • Blue

• It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Time
  • Black

• Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

  

  Quintilian
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Changes

• If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Myself
  • Anything
  • Marxist

• Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Man

• One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Enjoy
  • Company
  • Captain

• In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Advice

• If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I like those older theaters - the acoustics are perfect, I mean, you just have that feel of there's been a thousand shows in there and now you get to be one.

  

  Billy Gardell
  • Perfect

• I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

  

  Big Pun
  • History
  • Proud

• Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Style

• My new iPhone, I'm obsessed. My iPod. I love all the Mac crap. AppleTV, I'm crazy about that. I'd rather buy a new gadget than, like, a purse.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Crazy
  • Like
  • Purse

• My mother lives with me in Milan, while my father travels to and from Savona. My parents take care of my money, too.

  

  Stephan El Shaarawy
  • Money
  • Mother
  • Father

• I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations.

  

  Carol Shields
  • Mother