Clifton Fadiman Quotes

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Clifton Fadiman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 15, 1904 - June 20, 1999

Topics

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My time at Honda was amazing. Some of my best times in Formula One, actually. I might not have won races, just one race, but I had a lot of fun.

Jenson Button

TimeBestFunAmazingRaceJust One

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

John Irving

LoveWantSeeReadHowNovel

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

Jeff Bezos

ChangeTimeYourselfGovernmentYou

I've always thought of, of a relationship with an actor to an audience as a marriage, you know. And a story, you know. And there are ups and downs, and you work through them, and you work with them.

John Travolta

WorkMarriageRelationshipThought

The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.

Stephen Daldry

GreatFunPeopleStartTalkingYou

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

Simon Callow

ArtistsSomeShouldThemselves

I absolutely do not believe in the science of man-caused climate change.

Ron Johnson

ChangeScienceBelieveClimate Change

Public school teachers enjoy a huge amount of job security, thanks to their powerful unions and inflexible work rules.

Mike Gallagher

WorkJobSchoolEnjoyPowerful

I find myself eating different kinds of chicken each and every day, even if it's by surprise.

Ludacris

MyselfDayEatingSurpriseEvery Day

You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about.

Ludivine Sagnier

LoveCharacterYourselfFeelYou

I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty.

Clayton M. Christensen

MeHouseWhiteLostWashingtonSee

There would seem to be a limit, even for an art preoccupied with boundaries and transgressions, beyond which a work reaches its breaking point and becomes an actual failure, a mere experimentation.

Brian Ferneyhough

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