Mona Simpson Quotes

Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.

Mona Simpson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 14, 1957

Topics

WorkWhiteDownGoJacketClean

If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.

John Dingell

ControlColleaguesGunLossYear

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

Robert Kiyosaki

LeadershipGreatSchoolMilitaryTwo

I don't want to play stinking, beer-ridden clubs. It depresses me even thinking about that. I really hate it when you're finished with a show and you're in your dressing room with that stink of beer and sweaty girls. It brings back an ugly picture for me. I'd hate to have to do that again.

Steve Jones

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All men and women need a roof over their heads and need to be fed and have proper health care. I don't know that I believed that, or even understood that, in the early days.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

WomenHealthMenCareEarlyKnow

By 1968, I had lived 10 years in Michigan. Gradually, I had come to love watching Detroit's baseball club in its small, beautiful, antiquated Tiger Stadium - a baseball park as fine as Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, though it never got the adulatory press.

Donald Hall

LoveBeautifulBaseballSmallTiger

I've had injuries in my life from things beyond my control: runaway horses, helicopters that decide to crash on mountaintops, boating accidents - things that were out of my hands.

Christie Brinkley

LifeControlMy LifeHandsInjuries

My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.

Bruce Forsyth

MindHolidaysYearLongYouTake

I want to stretch myself as much as I can whilst I can, just work and try all different things and have a good time.

Annabelle Wallis

WorkGoodTimeMyselfI CanWant

You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff.

Alison Goldfrapp

HeartYouGoTrueOutFilter

I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first.

Prince Royce

LifeMusicPassionJumpFirstWhole

Being a part-time pop star was perfect, really, when I wasn't worn out by the partying.

Phil Daniels

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He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Thomas Paine

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