Thomas McGuane Quotes

All the ranchers I know have had back surgery, operations on their rotator cuffs. They all have new knees. I'd like to think I belong to that breed, but I don't.

Thomas McGuane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number of weapons to use in the fighting. It wasn't until they began to think about the aftermath and the legacy of landmines that they recognized the long-term, indiscriminate impact of the weapon.

Jody Williams

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I've always toured solo acoustic.

Jewel

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You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.

Jenna Fischer

MarriageFutureTimeExpectationsGo

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

Jennifer Lopez

SuccessYouTargetBecomeOnceMany

Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant ships, two armed brigantines, and one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain?

John Paul Jones

SeaPowerGreatOceanWarMadness

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourmet Butcher Block brought it by, and I had never heard of it or had seen one, and they put it in the booth, and it smelled so good that I had to taste it. And it was good. Then Thanksgiving came, and we got one in addition to the traditional turkey.

John Madden

GoodNewNeverThanksgivingTaste

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Max Beerbohm

ManPeopleSayEffectVainMeans

All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution - it's so frightful, over the whole world.

Merce Cunningham

WorldSicknessIsolationPollution

I did a Norwegian film called 'Insomnia' that was remade and that was a good remake by a good director, so I'm honoured.

Stellan Skarsgard

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You see a lot of talented people, but you usually don't see talented people who, behind the scenes, know how to conduct themselves on a higher level.

Romeo Santos

PeopleYouKnowSeeLevelBehind

I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that as far back as you can go - just to Homer, but also to the literature of Rome, the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance - what you will find is that women's voices are not taken seriously.

Mary Beard

WomenPastThinkLiteratureYouGo

People can easily make millions of dollars without much work in America.

Jason Calacanis

WorkPeopleAmericaWithoutMuch

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