Peter Straub Quotes

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

Peter Straub

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 2, 1943

Topics

AuthorityEventsQuestionQuestioning

The online credential, the online certificate is very different from an on campus certificate. And we really believe that online learning and the EdX platform and the EdX portal, these are ways in which - you can think of them as a rising tide that's going to lift all boats whether for students worldwide or on our campuses.

Anant Agarwal

LearningBelieveThinkYouTide

What I was really saying in 'The Examined Life' was that I was no longer as hardcore a libertarian as I had been before.

Robert Nozick

LifeSayingLibertarianBeenBefore

I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.

Max Greenfield

LoveRestRealityConfusedSomeone

I've been managing Internet businesses since 1999. That's 12 years of being in the tornado, and it's pretty exhausting. I'll be looking at the next challenge, but in terms of operating an Internet business, I've scratched that itch very well.

Jeff Jordan

BusinessChallengeLookingInternet

You can't be, like, smashing guitars against Marshall stacks all the time. As a matter of fact, after a while, it just looks like posing - it never really gets down to any message or any real expression.

Jeff Buckley

TimePosingYouDownLooksMatter

I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

FreedomLearnWho Am IWayBecome

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed?

Robert Walpole

CrownOthersSameHeadDifferent

You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them.

Luke Scott

LifeRespectPracticeMy LifeHobby

Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

MyselfJesus ChristPureAshamedAm

It's better to write a pilot rather than write a spec show. In some cases, you have to do both, but more often, writing a pilot and having an original voice is more important.

Cheo Hodari Coker

WritingVoiceBetterYouImportant

In business, in the music world, people know that I can be very friendly and warm but that, after a certain moment, the business is closed. I like to be alone: in order to concentrate on my work, the social life does not exist. It has never existed for me, really. I have chosen instead the working life because I prefer that.

Pierre Boulez

LifeWorkBusinessMusicAloneMe

Nah, I'm not one of those 'hip-hop is dead' people. I just like different artists. I never look at it as one entity. I've always felt like that.

Remy Ma

PeopleLookHip-HopDeadNeverJust

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