Thomas McGuane Quotes

There's a view of Montana writing that seems stage-managed by the Chamber of Commerce - it's all about writers like A. B. Guthrie and Ivan Doig. It used to bother me that nobody had a scene where somebody was delivering a pizza.

Thomas McGuane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 11, 1939

Topics

PizzaMeWritingViewNobodyUsed

If your No. 1 priority isn't winning, and people can tell? That's the battle. Now there's a problem between people, because that guy's No. 1 priority is winning, and that guy's isn't.

Jimmy Butler

PeopleWinningBattleProblemNow

I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.

Joanna Newsom

VoiceSomeoneI CanUnderstandSongs

The 'block' in 'Attack the Block' is not just a physical thing. It's people; it's families.

John Boyega

PeopleAttackJustBlockPhysical

Silicon Valley is like Wall Street in that it will fill and pursue market opportunities to their logical extremes.

Andrew Yang

OpportunitiesWallStreetWillLike

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

Anatole France

PeopleThinkHonestMerchantBargain

My relationship with God is what gives me a moral compass on what decisions to make and that stuff. I'm thankful that I have the people around me that I do, and they remind me each day of who I am and what I stand for.

Alyson Stoner

GodRelationshipThankfulDayI Am

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

Stanislav Grof

TimeSpaceManifestConsciousnessUs

This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.

Rod Parsley

ManLawThreeReviewUniversity

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

Ross Kemp

TogetherYouSituationCreateGroup

What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself.

Dianna Agron

GreatYourselfWritingAttentionYou

There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was Dax. Anyone that's roughly my age that's named Dax is named from that book.

Dax Shepard

AgeCharacterBookNameLateLead

I turned down a film that was offered to me in the very early '80s, a Scorsese film. That probably wasn't a good career move.

Christopher Lloyd

GoodMeEarlyCareerDownFilm

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