Michelle Shocked Quotes

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.

Michelle Shocked

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

AppreciationMeThinkFeelYouBack

I love my wife. She had money when I didn't.

Joe Jamail

LoveMoneyWifeSheI LoveHad

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent or consequence, are with or against assertions or premises implicit in the male system, which is made credible or authentic by the power of men to name.

Andrea Dworkin

PowerMenNameSystemAgainstMade

I think that high school themes are replayed over and over throughout your life, and you try to pretend that it's a phase and that once you're out of high school it's over, but I don't think that's true.

Michael J. Willett

LifeSchoolHigh SchoolThinkYou

Once I came up with the 'Stone Cold' thing, it was like a snowball rolling down a hill; it just kept getting larger and larger, and I wasn't afraid to push the envelope.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

ColdPushStoneDownHillAfraid

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

Mason Cooley

LoveGameMoreWinnersLosersThan

I never authorized any payments for someone to be silent. I did not buy anyone's silence.

Michel Temer

SilenceSomeoneSilentNeverBuy

Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

HealthLightShadowConsequencesOut

A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.

Julia Glass

ArtPurposeRealityMoralCreation

I'm not psychic myself.

Dionne Warwick

MyselfPsychic

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

Drew Barrymore

BeautifulButterflyUglyStartOut

Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently, the world is awash in capital, but the innovations we need to advance aren't there.

Clayton M. Christensen

WorldCreateMoreNeedTieUp

It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time.

Ali Smith

GreatTimeArtLightDarkCraft

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Michelle Shocked