Stephen Greenblatt Quotes

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.

Stephen Greenblatt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 7, 1943

Topics

GoodSmallThoughtEnoughLongFind

The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

Jim Goad

PeopleDietWhateverVeganEssential

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

CourageTrustLieMeasureTrials

A lot of us who grew up in the country, hunting and fishing, being very familiar with the woods and dirt roads, have the skill set you need to fight fire.

Matthew Desmond

RoadsFireFishingFightWoodsYou

I think it's hilarious when people call Jessica Alba or Eva Longoria curvy. Come on. They're not curvy. They're small. I'm curvy.

America Ferrera

PeopleSmallThinkCurvyCallCome

I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.

Stephen Schwartz

WorkLoveNew YorkThinkNewSecret

Getting older has been a bonus for me. I feel lucky that parts are being written for someone my age and I am around to play them.

Siobhan Finneran

AgeGetting OlderI AmMeSomeone

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

Ritchie Blackmore

LifeGuitarYouBackUpGive

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

Mary Harris Jones

I AmPlayOutFalseSellLeaders

Sen. Udall can only talk about one thing: He's a social issues warrior.

Cory Gardner

WarriorTalkSocialSocial IssuesHe

I like to put a record on and then listen to it again and then sit down and make my friends listen to it.

Chris Stapleton

FriendsDownListenSitLikeAgain

From the smallest misdemeanor up to the biggest crime, everyone is brought before a judge. And that means there's a huge backlog in the American legal system. There are prosecutors and public defenders and judges who are trying to keep their head above water in the tide of this bureaucracy and red tape.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

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I've been on the road for fifteen years and I had no intent to stop.

Bon Scott

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