Jay Parini Quotes

Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and others running for public office in this country should be condemned.

Jay Parini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 2, 1948

Topics

DailyLanguageLipsDonald Trump

It's the weird thing that actors do: You jumped across that building because the scene required it.

John Cameron Mitchell

BuildingWeirdYouBecauseScene

Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?

Jennifer Granholm

LoseCountryWantManufacturing

For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what I so desperately need to do with so many things: with fear, with what people think of me, and all these things I've worried about my whole life.

John Grant

LifeFearPeopleMeThinkProcess

In its first 30 years of existence, up to the mid 1970s, the practical applications of game theory were very limited, probably as a result of excessive preoccupation by game theorists with cooperative solution concepts.

John Harsanyi

GameSolutionResultFirstExistence

I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be.

Matthew Rhys

FitnessEasyNowSeemUsedShifting

Of course it's tough to reach the number one place and also winning grand slams.

Angelique Kerber

WinningToughReachPlaceGrand

We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas.

Michael Crichton

LiveDayIdeasEvery DayOurEvery

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.

Skitch Henderson

TomorrowYouLongevityGoingJust

Kids don't like being put into boxes, and your kid can act in different ways in different situations.

Rosalind Wiseman

KidActBeingBoxesDifferentKids

I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

Mary Oliver

FamilyChildhoodWordsWorldHard

I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.

Judah Friedlander

SchoolFilmLikeFilm School

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

Jonathan Groff

YouWorstAlwaysActBecauseSing

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