Mike Birbiglia Quotes

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

Mike Birbiglia

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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

Angela Carter

DinnerRulesTableNowDinner Table

As you age, your blood pressure tends to get higher.

Michael Greger

AgePressureYouBloodGetYour

My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.

Stephen Pagliuca

WorkGoodFatherMotherDayJob

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

Sitting Bull

DeathDieRightsMustOurDefending

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Robin Williams

InspirationalChangeChange The World

Men over 60 often think that if they wear athletic shoes - soft-soled referee shoes or hiking shoes or actual running shoes - then they will look more youthful. The contrary is true.

Russell Smith

ShoesMenThinkLookTrueWill

Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.

Joshua Ferris

TimeBookExpectationsSomeoneYou

Providing investors with recourse against governments is valuable.

Jose Angel Gurria

AgainstValuableProvidingRecourse

Before Anna, I'd had a few relationships and I'm glad I've been around a bit. I know where it's gone wrong or know who are the wrong people for me and who I might be wrong for.

David Thewlis

PeopleMeWrongKnowRelationships

Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful to juniors, authentically curious about the news, and, in his time, an energetic reporter.

Conrad Black

ChildrenTimeManCuriousFlyNews

I was born and raised in Denver, went to school there, went to college there, and I've been on the same team for seven years, and I kind of found myself going through the motions a little bit.

Brendan Schaub

MyselfSchoolCollegeTeamBorn

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.

Bruce Springsteen

TimeNameKindDrummerBandMarines

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