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Michael Dirda Quotes

My gift, if that's not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a way that people want to read them.

Michael Dirda

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

Topics

History People Gift Want Way Read

I dislike all those cookie-cutter Nashville songs. You know the ones: about tight jeans and pick-up trucks.

Joe Bonamassa

You Know Nashville Jeans Dislike

I have been extremely fortunate to have incredibly special fans support my work throughout my twelve year career.

Matt Czuchry

Work Support Year Career Special

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

John Wanamaker

Day Old Standards Up Keep Raise

When you sit down and watch something alone, you're going to watch it for what it is.

John Turturro

Alone You Down Sit Something Going

Where were they when the Russians went down?

Stacy Keach

Down Where Russians Were

As Americans, it is always important to remember where we once were and how far we have come.

Mike Quigley

Remember Important Always How Far

My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

Joseph M. Kyrillos

Colleagues Debt More Opponent Taxes

As far as jeans and shirts, I rock a lot of different things.

Colin Kaepernick

Rock Jeans Things Different Shirts

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Winston Churchill

More Battles Greater General He Won

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Pope Benedict XVI

Moving Ego Goal Dictatorship Own

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

Phil Collins

People Me Performance Song Think

You've got to believe in yourself.

Scott Borchetta

Believe In Yourself Yourself Believe