Tillie Olsen Quotes

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

Tillie Olsen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 14, 1913 - January 1, 2007

Topics

TimeUsedMostGrantedDoesFully

But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.

John Dryden

ThinkToo MuchTalkMoreLittleFar

When blood is placed under a microscope, it appears as a number of minute globules or discs, but when seen by the trained clairvoyant as it courses through the living body, blood is found to be a gas, a spiritual essence.

Max Heindel

SpiritualBodyBloodLivingThrough

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.

John Polkinghorne

KnowledgeExperienceUnityWorldOur

As a beneficiary of the carried interest loophole, I've seen firsthand the lack of any difference between the work involved in generating a carried interest and the work done by millions of other professionals who are taxed at the full 35 percent rate.

Steven Rattner

WorkDoneDifferenceSeenInterest

Music can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind.

Tomas Luis de Victoria

GoodMusicMindBodyAffectWell

Direct threats require decisive action.

Dick Cheney

ActionDecisiveThreatsDirect

We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in modern times, but there's a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.

Chris Stapleton

MusicHistoryWritingSongCheating

I go to London, my favourite city in the world, and I feel at home.

Boris Becker

HomeCityWorldFeelGoLondon

I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.

Anton Corbijn

I AmMeVillageBoyAlwaysBig

I am contesting elections since 1952, but never did I throw mud.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

I AmNeverMudElectionsThrowDid

Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly.

William T. Vollmann

LifeFailureLiveSchoolHigh School

There's a wide spectrum between a Navy SEAL hero-killer and a traumatized victim, but those are the archetypes - hashed and rehashed in the media, in popular culture, in the minds of people with a lot of preconceived notions but not much else.

Phil Klay

CulturePeopleMediaNavyMinds

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