Michael Dirda Quotes

With any luck, Heaven itself will resemble a vast used bookstore, with a really good cafe in one corner, serving dark beer and kielbasa to keep up one's strength while browsing, and all around will be the kind of angels usually found in Victoria's Secret catalogs.

Michael Dirda

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StrengthGoodBeerLuckDarkHeaven

I've been collecting comics since I was 10 years old. One of the first books I ever got my hands on was a Captain America-Falcon team-up.

Joe Russo

HandsCaptainOldFirstYearsBeen

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

Jim Barksdale

CompeteWhereWellMeritVery

I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.

Jo Brand

GreatPeopleFriendsSayVoteWho

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

John Astin

ThinkGhostI ThinkFigureAm

I miss Swedish meatballs, but you can get them pretty much anywhere.

Joel Kinnaman

YouPrettyMissGetAnywhereMuch

Utopia means elsewhere.

John Malkovich

UtopiaMeansElsewhere

I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.

Michael Birch

BestFriendsSomeoneTryingPerson

In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching.

Amitava Kumar

CriticismWayMoreComplexTemper

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

Michael Stipe

FoodI AmI Am What I AmKnowLabels

There's always been a struggle with filmmakers between art and industry, and you have to find a balance.

Michel Hazanavicius

ArtStruggleBalanceYouFindBeen

I shouldn't make fun of the blacks: President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke.

Don Rickles

FriendFunHouseYesterdayPersonal

I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.

Dick Van Dyke

LifeBusinessComedyKnowEverything

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