John Edgar Wideman Quotes

Seamless, careful, by-the-book performance provides no evidence of what the spider's thinking about the fly enmeshed in its web.

John Edgar Wideman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 14, 1941

Topics

FlyPerformanceThinkingSpiderWeb

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Ani DiFranco

YouRightHoldToolWeaponAny

My goal was to try and kind of be our generation's Marty McFly. That was what my all-time goal was.

Tom Holland

GenerationGoalKindTryOurMarty

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

Robert Falcon Scott

LifeLooksSometimesDifficultPack

Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

LoveWomenWordsLearnBackHard

Like a lot of people, I've often wondered what else I might have been. When I was younger, but even after I was a child, I thought Batman was the whole package. Smart, calculating, pragmatic. Depressed, but in a way women found hot. Tragic at his core and struggling with his demons while trying to save the world.

Michael Redhill

WomenSmartChildPeopleWorldWay

'Know,' says a wise writer, the historian of kings, 'Know the men that are to be trusted'; but how is this to be? The possession of knowledge involves both time and opportunities. Neither of these are 'handservants at command.'

Dorothea Dix

KnowledgeTimeMenWiseKingsKnow

If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.

Douglas Brinkley

FriendshipIntelligenceBelieveLong

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

Brent Spiner

ManThinkPotentialEnoughSeeing

I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.'

Ashley Benson

OperaDaysSoapOurSoap Opera

To me, a feminist belongs in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Suzanne Vega

MeThoughtSomeoneWhyHumanSee

When I was a kid, I really wanted a metal detector for Christmas, convinced I was going to find buried treasure and could retire at 12. Santa Claus brought me one, but sadly, that treasure was never realized. It's amazing how many bottle caps you have to dig up. But to be honest, that dream is still alive.

Peter Billingsley

AmazingMeYouDreamFindTreasure

It doesn't matter to me who's the most powerful or profitable country in the world. All countries want to be prosperous. What's happening is a zero-sum game between China and the U.S., where their gain is our loss.

Peter Navarro

MeWorldGameLossPowerfulCountry

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