Stanley Fish Quotes

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

Stanley Fish

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 19, 1938

Topics

BetterNowEvidenceHistoricalFact

People are always going to say stupid things, and you're always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in, because it's the easiest thing.

John Oliver

PeopleStupidYouSayAlwaysJokes

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Maurice Chevalier

AgeOld AgeYouBadOldAlternative

I was always interested in working with people with disabilities, and in high school I worked with people who had Down Syndrome. That was for an agency called AHRC, Association for the Help of Retarded Children. Then I went to college, and throughout college I volunteered for AHRC.

Meredith Eaton

ChildrenSchoolPeopleCollegeHelp

Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.

Michael Bolton

MusicMyselfBlackReachAccept

On the microphone, I'm not scared to step up and say, 'This is my ability, this is how good I am.' In other areas of life, I'm not so confident; I'm still adjusting to the photo shoots, all that stuff. But behind the mic, I'm fully confident.

Stormzy

LifeGoodI AmStepConfidentSay

The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness.

Mike Krzyzewski

HighCompetitivenessLevelKnewHad

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Louis Kronenberger

GreatReligionPeopleBelieveYou

If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.

Lisa Unger

PsychiatristWriterWere

I'm not that great of an actor, so I can't, like, completely become somebody else.

Jason Bateman

GreatActorBecomeSomebodyLike

The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'

Douglas Lain

ScienceRideFunThinkProblemWant

There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.

Chellie Pingree

GreatTimeValuePeopleBrainSoup

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

Anne Tyler

EndWonderTryPointWhereAgain

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