Alice Hoffman Quotes

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

Alice Hoffman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 16, 1952

Topics

WomenBlueMedicineMagicKindWay

Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen.

Joanna Scott

RealityHidePersonWaySeenMay

My father is the sun in my universe.

Meghan McCain

FatherSunUniverse

Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are.

Matt Taibbi

WorkGoodDemocracyToughLookBad

Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.

Jeff Greene

WarWorldForgetClassWorld War II

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

Jean Toomer

IgnoranceKnowingFirstAct

I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.

Steve Martin

GoodMusicMeFeel GoodFeelView

I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band.

Ritchie Blackmore

GoWantBandShow OffWatchSeen

I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics.

Rose McGowan

MorningSorryBlackDieAliveMeet

I remember, after the New Year's Eve 1991 show, somebody running onto the bus and saying Nirvana had just hit No. 1. I remember thinking, 'Wow; it's on now.' It changed something. We had something to prove - that our band was as good as I thought it was.

Mike McCready

GoodSayingThinkingThoughtYear

I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

Louis Armstrong

SacrificePlayOddsDeterminedWhole

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

Joseph Conrad

LifeMenEndEasyEmptyForgotten

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

Bootsy Collins

ThinkYouNobodyNeedComputerElse

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