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Clifton Fadiman Quotes

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

Clifton Fadiman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Man School High School End Become

The period in the name - huge mistake, I know. We didn't think about that. We never thought we were going to be written up in magazines. The second we saw it in print, like, what a mistake, man.

Man Mistake Think Thought Name Know

Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.

Justice Government Control Start Gun

A lot of fans know that I love motorcycles. That's a big love of mine. I could spend days on the bike if I had the time.

Robert Duncan McNeill

Love Time Bike Know Fans Big

Time between sets should be short and just long enough so that you are sufficiently recovered to hit the next set hard.

Time Short Enough Long You Hard

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

Tea American Party Ideal Like About

I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.

Age Me Weakness Lying Started Older

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life Wisdom Words Mind Color Talk

Jazz has provided the framework for all the other stuff that I've done.

Done Jazz Stuff Other Framework

I still think of things for 'Jill' all the time. It's annoying, because I want to be able to find another character who I could write for indefinitely.

Character Time Think Find Want Able

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Smart People World Impossible Enough

My British mum met my American dad when she was on holiday in the United States when she was 19. She kinda never looked back. I was born in the United States, raised in Montana and London.

Philip Winchester

American Back Holiday Born London

I turn down invitations to events where I know there will be politicians.

Down Know Will Events Turn Where

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