Thomas McGuane Quotes

I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.

Thomas McGuane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeFeelingKindScaryAlways

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

Robert Smith

ParentsSmallFeelBackHouseGo

It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

Amanda Bynes

GoodGreatEndInterestingYouKnow

It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism.

Stephen Kinzer

WiseNeverYouthfulIdealism

I think, television and comics, what's appealing to me as a writer about both of those mediums is that they allow you to sort of let the story unfold in its own time as opposed to trying to compress it into a two-hour discreet unit of narrative.

Travis Beacham

TimeMeStoryThinkTryingYou

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Miguel de Unamuno

SolitudeFindingFindOnlyBrothers

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

Lord Salisbury

MyselfThingsDisappearRankWhose

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

Dennis Potter

TalentYouObligationYourUse

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

Christian Siriano

YouWantWhateverWear

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

Clint Eastwood

TheatreBackActorMoreStageUp

People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything.

Bode Miller

PeopleFaceWillPossibleMoreSee

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Alice Meynell

TravelMemoryAngelStrongNameOwn

Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but I feel good about it. I chained myself to the gate of a phone book factory, a GTE factory in Los Angeles. They were using thousand-year-old trees to make phone books. I think that's a total waste of a tree.

Winona LaDuke

GoodMyselfTreePeopleFeel Good

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