Michael Schur Quotes

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

Michael Schur

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 29, 1975

Topics

PeopleConflictComedyStorytelling

As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on site visits quite often, from age 7 or 8. I have memories of crawling through the rafters of the old building, trying to find where the leak in the roof was.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

AgeMemoriesBuildingTryingFind

The days of CEOs getting rich while shareholders lose has got to end. Management must be accountable.

John Paulson

ManagementRichEndLoseDaysMust

We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.

Robert Webb

PeopleRevolutionLongSeriouslyWay

I like endings that let your imagination do a lot of the work.

Matt Bomer

WorkImaginationLikeYourEndings

For many impoverished people, living under a tarp or in a cardboard box is a way of life.

Mike Gallagher

LifePeopleLivingWayBoxMany

I did play every little note on the guitar on that record.

Lita Ford

GuitarPlayLittleNoteDidEvery

You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.

Chris Cuomo

TimePoliticsYouBoringTalkJust

One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.

Chris Jordan

ArtCulturePoliticsWarPoetry

If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.

Bono

SeaWorldImpossibleNowProsperity

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

Antonio Tabucchi

LifeTeacherViewMy LifeLiterature

The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.

Arthur Laffer

EconomyAlwaysIncomeZeroSum

If there's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair it is this - I am not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.

William Hague

I AmPeopleMeEmbarrassedBritish

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