E. L. Doctorow Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
-
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
-
In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
-
I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
-
Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
-
In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
-
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
-
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
-
I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
-
The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
-
I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
-
I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
-
It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
-
I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
-
I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
-
I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
-
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
-
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
-
All these problems [deciding cases] are easier for people who believe in God. Those of us who don't or can't have to do the best we can. That's what the law is, the best we can do. Human justice is imperfect, but it's the only justice we have.
-
It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.
-
For me, one of the hallmarks of a really great book is that I'm seeing it in my head while I'm reading.
-
Give us that grand word 'woman' once again, and let's have done with 'lady'; one's a term full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; and one's a word for lackeys.
-
State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones.
-
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
