Simon Winchester Quotes

Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

Simon Winchester

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 28, 1944

Topics

EarthNothingKansasEvenState

I did little theater things growing up.

Jody Hill

Growing UpGrowingUpLittleThings

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

Joan Baez

QuestionsAnswersGetHypothetical

For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.

John Burnside

BirdIdentityWorldSongLoseWay

There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful.

Jeremy Stoppelman

TechnologyTraditionRiseStopNew

You can't just sort of come with, say, 'Yesterday,' or 'A Hard Day's Night,' and it be in the wrong place in the wrong show, and expect the song to work theatrically.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

WorkDayNightSongYouYesterday

Well my briefing was that Honduras was a small and vulnerable country just back on the path towards democracy it was about to have just before I arrived, the first elections for a civilian president in more than 9 years.

John Negroponte

PathDemocracySmallBackCountry

When I was a teenager, I loved political conventions.

Robert Krulwich

LovedPoliticalTeenagerConventions

People forget that boxing is the art of self-defence - ideally, hit and not be hit - and maybe we should all think about that a bit more.

Amir Khan

ArtPeopleThinkBoxingForgetMore

There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in.

Sue Monk Kidd

TryingAttentionInsideOutsideOut

If it involved giants on any level, as a kid I was really wrapped up in that.

Travis Beacham

KidUpGiantsInvolvedLevelReally

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

Russell Baker

DeathPeopleOpportunitiesNewTakes

First play I ever did was 'Footloose.' I played the part of Willard when I was 16. I think I wore my drama teacher's jeans and her belt - that's how small I was. I know a lot of Willard's back story from the musical that's not explored in the film. Like he's got this whole relationship with his mama, and he sings this song 'Mama Says.'

Miles Teller

RelationshipTeacherSongSmallPlay

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