Nicholson Baker Quotes

E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

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• I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Air
  • Never

• In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Love
  • Job
  • True

• When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • She
  • Stop
  • Day

• Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Money

• I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Enjoy

• I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reborn
  • Sanctuary

• I think I first encountered Ebola from the movie 'Outbreak.' Then there was the book 'The Hot Zone.' It's the type of thing you either read and say, 'Oh wow, that's terrifying,' or you read it and say, 'Oh wow, I want to do that.' I read it and said, 'Oh wow, I want do that.'

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Want

• Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Want
  • Train
  • Diamond

• There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Financial
  • Poor
  • Public

• I have two incredible sisters who have very high-powered jobs and kids and, you know, both have their master's; one runs triathlons all the time.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Time
  • Kids
  • High

• I hope to start enjoying flirting again when I'm 70, like my mother did.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Start

• Yeah, I can understand that. All the splendor of the Taj Mahal, without the inconvenience and expense of traveling to India.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

• I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not. You must  be laughing at me for feeling you are laughing at me  if you are not laughing at me.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Feeling

• Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Desire

• If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have some genes that neither parent has, then you know that difference is either a mutation or a processing error.

  

  Leroy Hood
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• Back in the day, fans wrote letters to groups - you'd get them, although it could take a while. Now, artists can go online and there's discussions about what you should and shouldn't be doing. The minute you announce that you're recording an album, thousands of people are telling you what that album should be.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • People

• An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • People
  • Time
  • True

• One of those quiet types who logs a lot of time in the bedlam of her head, I sometimes need to be startled awake to the fact that the outside world still exists.

  

  Amy Gerstler
  • Time
  • World

• Whether it's in in livability, transportation, or the environment, Portland is always leading the country. We have more to do before we achieve our goals, but we should all be encouraged by our progress and this recognition.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Country
  • Environment
  • Progress

• When I joined in 1990, as they say in the sport of sailing, Puma was in the doldrums. It was a difficult time, and Puma had gone to sleep.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Sailing

• There's always going to be the market for people who are known to have led wild and crazy lives.

  

  Dave Itzkoff
  • People
  • Crazy

• I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land' was so painful.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Why

• Open is the way of Satan; many walk therein.

  

  Jan Hus
  • Satan

• E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Sailing