Michel Faber Quotes

I joined an Internet community of Victorian scholars, which meant that if I posted a question about 1875's lavender harvest, more than a thousand experts would ponder it.

Michel Faber

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: April 13, 1960

Topics

CommunityInternetHarvestQuestion

Radio astronomers are aware in the back of their minds that if there are other civilizations out there in space, it might be the radio astronomers who first pick up the signal.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

SpaceBackMindsFirstRadioOut

In hip hop, 'real' has always meant one who represents in actuality what they present in imagery. For instance, once upon a time, if a rapper spoke about being gangsta, they needed to truly be that, or they were 'frontin.'

Amanda Seales

TimePresentRealRapperGangsta

I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great.

America Ferrera

CharacterGreatI AmPeopleRemember

I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

Amitabh Bachchan

HomeCreativePeopleNightFeelGo

I thought it was unfair to ask school kids to integrate first. The parents should lead the way, not send out the children as advance troops.

Stanley Marcus

ChildrenSchoolParentsThoughtWay

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Sophocles

LiveSomeoneGrowing OldGrowingOld

Every transportation department at schools thought that there should be a bike buddy program. They thought that bicycle commuters wanted to find another buddy to bike with to campus, which is a nice idea. But the consumer demand for that was about zero.

Logan Green

BikeThoughtBicycleTransportation

I am going to leave everything on the field. I am going everywhere, and I am going to listen to everybody.

Jay Inslee

I AmListenEverythingLeaveGoing

We don't want to bank all our risk on a small collection of big companies. We don't want to lose 20 percent of our business if one big account goes away.

Jason Fried

BusinessSmallLoseWantRiskBank

No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by allowing more time to the UN inspectors.

Douglas Hurd

TimeWarMoreMilitaryWithoutMay

I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.

Bob Graham

ConfidencePresidentEventsTruthful

We all live with contradictions.

Wyatt Cenac

LiveContradictions

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