Alice Munro Quotes

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

Alice Munro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomenGreatMenMemoryPeopleMe

I try not to bring my phone to the gym - it's too tempting to play with it.

Andrew Yang

GymPhonePlayTryBringToo

We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

Max Lucado

ChoicesFeetDecisionsHandsPig

'Memoryhouse' came out, and there wasn't a single review and zero sales, and after about a year, it was deleted. So I recorded The 'Blue Notebooks' on a little indie label, and my attitude was, 'Well, if nobody is listening, I might as well keep doing what I'm doing'.

Max Richter

AttitudeBlueListeningDoingYear

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.

Ann Coulter

ManYouDownTryRightTaxes

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

Jean-Paul Sartre

ManOnceAnguishSays

I believe the passage of a national paid family and medical leave law is not a question of if, but when. But as is so often the case on important public policy issues, we need states and localities to be the incubators of innovation.

Tom Perez

FamilyInnovationMedicalLawNeed

I am very supportive of Donald Trump's call to temporarily suspend immigration from countries where terrorists influence and impact represents a threat to the United States.

Mike Pence

I AmInfluenceImpactImmigration

I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write with me, and to be honest, it's not something I've ever really had a passion for - plus I wasn't sure I had the talent to do it!

Martina McBride

PassionTimeTalentPeopleMeLong

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.

Moira Kelly

StyleBluesSingLikeCabaret

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

Judy Collins

LifeSufferingMy LifeTragedyAlive

What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time.

Jonathan Sacks

TimeCelebrateStoryYearFindWay

I'm a Raider. Die hard Raider.

Art Shell

DieHardDie HardRaider

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