Mary Gordon Quotes

I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.

Mary Gordon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 8, 1949

Topics

LifeFatherGreatJobJoyMe

As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.

Jenny Eclair

YourselfBetterSmokingYouLooks

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

John Cusack

NewBoxingHollywoodSomethingLike

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.

John Henrik Clarke

CommunityHistoryAcceptancePeople

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Max Eastman

TogetherLaughterSocietySpeech

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

Matthew McGrory

LoveComedyKindWouldLikeTap

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.

Amy Lowell

HeartAloneGreatFireI AmTired

I'm not up in the front office or anything; I just control what I can control: playin' ball and playin' the best I can play.

Rob Gronkowski

BestControlI CanPlayOfficeUp

Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.

Rod Stewart

ThankfulDayThank YouYouSayUp

The fans in Canada have been there since day one. They're the originals. When people say that's your roots, that's literally my roots. I've just cut this tree off and replanted it somewhere else and it started growing. But the roots are there.

Russell Peters

TreeDayPeopleRootsCanadaSay

I stay up too late pretty much every night working on music.

Mike Posner

MusicNightLateToo LateUpPretty

It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.

Mitch Landrieu

LoveHeartSoulPeopleCityBetter

Self pity is the worst possible disease that can affect mankind. And if we do just the opposite, which is love, then we have God's feelings with us at all times.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

LoveGodSelfFeelingsPossible

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