Jim Harrison Quotes

I've got a poem that's in a lot of international anthologies called 'After the Anonymous Swedish' and I thought, 'Well, I'm a Swede. I can make up a Swedish poem.' It turned out pretty good.

Jim Harrison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 11, 1937 - March 26, 2016

Topics

GoodThoughtI CanOutUpPretty

What I'm good at is making art.

Jock Sturges

GoodArtMaking

The world wants India to remain an import-based economy. Then India can be a dumping ground where gold can be dumped and other commodities such as oil and gas. They look at India as a huge market.

Anil Agarwal

GoldWorldLookIndiaOilEconomy

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

Jeffery Deaver

WordsPeopleMoreBooksWhoThan

If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me.

Amal Clooney

SuccessSleepMeNightLawyerYou

Even if you were a general in 1945, if you split the revolutionary national unity today, if you are an enemy of the main pillars of the revolution today, then you have become a force of reaction!

Sukarno

TodayUnityRevolutionYouEnemy

I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

Stieg Larsson

LifePeopleMeSocietyMy LifeWant

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies

DopeWorstCharacteristicsMiser

I'm literally an independent. Apolitical. So that I am not always going to be with the Left's perceived interests or the Right's perceived interests.

Mary Jo White

I AmIndependentRightAlwaysGoing

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.

Lord Hailsham

MenDoubtNothingOthersMoreOut

I want to take everything I have in me, weave it, merge it with the beauty that is in the Library of Congress, all the resources, the guidance of the staff and departments, and launch it with the heart-shaped dreams of the people.

Juan Felipe Herrera

BeautyDreamsPeopleMeLibrary

It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.

Chaz Bono

WomanMeBodyKidLittleJust

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

Christina Hoff Sommers

TodayWorldYouAwayGoingGet

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