Jonathan Raban Quotes

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

Jonathan Raban

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 14, 1942

Topics

FatherDreamsTimeMindPolitical

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

Joe Tex

ParentsBornLivingFloridaLived

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

Amy Lowell

HatePlaceVultureDescending

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.

Mary J. Blige

MyselfTrustPeopleMeOpinionsWho

New York had this wild beat that anybody could dance to. It was very nurturing to young people.

Mary Steenburgen

DanceNew YorkPeopleNewYoung

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

Michael Leunig

MeOverYearsPaperBeenJust

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

LL Cool J

FearDreamsYour DreamsPastThink

If yesterday was a good day's work, chances are you'll stay on a roll. And if you can stay on a roll, everything else will probably take care of itself - including not working from the moment you get up in the morning until you nod off to sleep.

Jason Fried

WorkGoodMorningMomentDaySleep

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Jorge Luis Borges

LibraryNot KnowingGuiltyKnowing

Going to Russia is going to be nothing for me. I'm going to treat it like it's the U.S. because, at the end of the day, it's one man, one ring.

Deontay Wilder

DayManMeTreatEnd Of The DayEnd

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

David Steinberg

ComedyTalkJoyfulHeAboutTalks

If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.

Christina Romer

CompetitionPowerfulFindWillHigh

I don't want my guy to buy me cars, villas or diamonds. I can do all that. I don't want any PDA, either. But my guy should be very sensitive to my pains and sorrows and should try to make me happy because I'd do all that for him. Sadly, most of the men that I have met in the past couple of years are too self-obsessed.

Anushka Sharma

MenPastHappyMeDiamondsI Can

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