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Michael Finkel Quotes

I think many people have this sense that something about modern society - the screens, the noise, the traffic, the constant busyness - has approached a point where living in the world feels somewhat unhealthy.

Michael Finkel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american

Topics

People World Society Think Living

I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.

Jennifer Gilmore

Success Time Book Know Now Knowing

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.

Robert Kraft

Jealousy Envy Diseases Incurable

But the idea that some day people would want to be able to interact and get stock quotes and talk with other people or all these different things, I just believed that was going to happen.

Steve Case

Day People Want Talk Happen Going

Every time I come home, it is the same great pleasure to lie down in my bed. That's when I think, 'home sweet home.'

Sigrid Agren

Home Great Time Lie Sweet Think

I'll be the first one to admit my first couple of years I was pretty hard on the refs.

Sidney Crosby

Admit First Hard Years Pretty

I am an educator and neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and what happens when a young brain can't learn to read easily, as in the childhood learning challenge, developmental dyslexia.

Maryanne Wolf

Learning Challenge Childhood I Am

Lots of people have written to say 'Bake Off' has inspired them to bake with their children. I feel proud about that; it's exactly what I used to do with mine.

Mary Berry

Children People Proud Feel Say Used

Net neutrality is the right thing for our democracy, economy, and global competitiveness. And Americans support an open Internet.

Marvin Ammori

Support Democracy Internet Economy

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Good Humor People World Looking Say

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

Jonathan Lethem

Confused Always Boundaries Writer

Captain Kirk has been a source of pleasure and income for a long time.

William Shatner

Time Long Long Time Captain Pleasure

I like a woman that's capable and at the same time feminine. I admire tomboy qualities but with a feminine touch.

Paul Walker

Time Woman Admire Touch Capable