Alice Munro Quotes

Housework never really bothered me... what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life... when you're a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn't the fact that you do the laundry.

Alice Munro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: July 10, 1931

Topics

LifeSpaceMeYouLaundryNever

Success is overwhelming.

Jennifer Holliday

SuccessSuccess IsOverwhelming

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Robert Staughton Lynd

KnowledgeIgnoranceManSearchTake

'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

Robert Gottlieb

MeditationDyingTendernessBeloved

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

John Searles

LifeLiveCharacterWorldTryReal

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

Althea Gibson

PeopleMeGameEnoughHelpWay

Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.

Simon Sinek

LoyaltyProductSellPricesDropping

If I write in my name to the agents of England and France residing in Asia and inform them that Japan is ready to make a commercial treaty with their countries, the number of steamers will be reduced from fifty to two or three.

Townsend Harris

NameReadyThreeWillWriteFifty

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Russell Baker

CompanyMiseryNowadaysLongerLoves

But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.

Michael Shanks

ExperienceWalkHappyPossibilities

Although there's a stigma that you learn only until a certain point, and then you just maintain, for me to learn the triple axel at 24 goes to show that anything's possible.

Mirai Nagasu

MeLearnYouPossibleAnythingJust

I'm trying to be number one all the way around. It's not just the South, it's not just the East, it's not the West, I'm going for across the world, you know what I'm saying? This is where I'm coming from.

Ludacris

WorldSayingTryingYouKnowWay

Raising three boys is a huge responsibility for me, especially in this day and time when I look around and there's a lack of good, strong, upstanding Christian men who are not afraid to be men and just own up to their responsibility.

Josh Turner

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