Alice Munro Quotes

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

Alice Munro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MemoryStartStoryLostSometimes

There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.

Meg Cabot

QueenI AmKingWaitingParentsMe

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

John Legend

WorkMusicFunListenHearingGet

I got to have a great big knock-down, drag-out fight with Sylvester Stallone. Every actor should have that much fun at some point. You can hit him as hard as you can, and it's never enough for him.

John Lithgow

GreatFightFunEnoughYouActor

I have always believed that we all have male and female within us.

Meredith Monk

AlwaysWithinUsFemaleBelieved

Lots of people are going to sell clothes online. But not a lot of people have built a brand, a living, breathing brand that people feel like they're part of.

Sophia Amoruso

PeopleBrandFeelClothesLiving

I don't have an issue with whether - from a legal standpoint, with whether or not government can impose the ultimate punishment on people. We do it in capital cases. Police officers shoot fleeing felons.

Trey Gowdy

PoliceGovernmentPeopleLegalShoot

By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.

Robbie Robertson

TimePlayRockLondonRollOnly

Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it's all about how you react to that music or wine.

Mike D

FunnyMusicPracticeCriticismWine

One of the things about being on Twitter, for me, is mostly about just being on the pulse of what people are interested in, what people are doing and what people are looking for. I look at entertainment projects and storytelling, and I really try to think about what people want.

Ashton Kutcher

PeopleMeLookingThinkDoingLook

Where are the jobs going to come from? Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

William J. Clinton

BusinessTodayMoneyFinanceEnergy

I did a film on Muhammad Ali before he was champion. I was there when he became champion in 1964. I was happy to be able to document the development of a real American hero.

William Klein

HeroHappyChampionAmericanReal

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Shawnee Smith

LifeDayEnd Of The DayEndYou

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