Michael Dirda Quotes

Reading books might itself be a bit weird, but obviously okay, since books were part of school, and doing well in school was clearly a good thing. But comics were more like candy, just flashy wrappers without any nourishment. Cheap thrills.

Michael Dirda

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GoodSchoolReadingWeirdDoing

Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.

Stella Blum

HateSoulPeopleFashionPushQuick

Our world and our state have been transformed, but, in contrast, we as people have not been.

Ruth Ann Minner

PeopleWorldContrastBeenState

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.

Julia Child

WineDuckWhiteKnowNeverFirst

Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

Jay Griffiths

TimeGraceTimingIndividualSocial

When little kids come up to me, I'm a fully-grown adult, and that's always weird to me.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

MeWeirdAlwaysUpLittleAdult

I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening.

Dennis Basso

CookingGardeningI AmLikeQuite

It's not my job to convince people that Koresh was the final messenger or had this final message.

David Thibodeau

JobPeopleConvinceFinalMessenger

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Clarence Darrow

LawLegalLawyersTrouble

Contessa, a.k.a. Baboushka, was a leader in the Russian mafia. Hardnosed, ruthless... very much her own woman. She's a martial artist, marksman, and good with guns and gadgets as any good pulp spy should be. She's supported by her constant companion Gyorgy Gyorgyov, an old friend of her family who was, in fact, her KGB handler and inventor.

Antony Johnston

FamilyGoodFriendLeaderWomanShe

I would never want to do something just for the sake of being independent or for the sake of doing big films. I'm always surprised by the material I'm attracted to. And that's how I like it. I like to be surprised.

Alice Englert

DoingWantIndependentNeverAlways

I always want to be known as a good Test cricketer. I believe I have the ability to score big runs in the longer format. For that, I know I have to score heavily in whatever opportunities I get.

Suresh Raina

GoodBelieveOpportunitiesKnowWant

You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.

Toby Jones

DoingYouImportantAlwaysGetHow

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