Alice McDermott Quotes

I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things.

Alice McDermott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 27, 1953

Topics

FaithPrayerI AmSearchLanguage

Showing up to games year after year, no matter what the product on the field gives you back, is a learned behavior - sort of like rats in a maze searching for cheese. The rat learns the maze, learns where the cheese is placed and eventually goes to it without thought, even when the cheese is taken away. The rat doesn't know anything else.

Joe Cowley

ThoughtBehaviorShowing UpYearYou

The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not.

Joe Eszterhas

GodLookingThank GodYouSaySee

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

John Boyne

I AmWarPeopleViolenceKindAm

I'm an emotional fighter; that's no secret. But it can be detrimental.

Michael Bisping

FighterSecretEmotionalDetrimental

We want to be sensitive to people's concerns about privacy about their personal being and things, while ensuring that everybody on every flight has been properly screened.

John Pistole

PeoplePrivacyFlightWantPersonal

There are a lot of queers starved for entertainment from their own community.

Michelle Tea

CommunityEntertainmentOwnLot

ISIL is dangerous. They're a threat. They're a brutal, horrible force that needs to be dealt with.

Lois Frankel

DangerousForceDealtHorribleNeeds

I love playing roles where it's not just the good guy or the bad guy.

Joshua Henry

LoveGoodBadBad GuyPlayingGuy

In the beginning, when I signed with Miami, they said they were never gonna trade me, and then, after first year, boom, they traded me to Toronto.

Jose Reyes

BeginningMeMiamiYearSaidNever

I want to win. I don't want to spend the rest of my career on a last-place team. That's not the kind of player I feel like I am.

Jose Reyes

I AmTeamWinRestFeelCareer

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

Dinaw Mengestu

DecisionPoliticsAfricaWriteFirst

Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people.

Denzil Douglas

PeopleBlessedPoliticalCountryOur

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