Tobias Wolff Quotes

Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

Tobias Wolff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 19, 1945

Topics

PeopleWritingLiteratureFeelings

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

Joanna Lumley

SpaceConstructionLearnSkinNASA

In terms of sheer writing I might have done most of my work by 11. If you get up at 6:30 or 7 you can get a huge amount done by 11 and have the rest of the day off if you want to, though I have to check my accumulating e-mails. No one ever sends me horrible e-mails. Although some of my books are supposed to be hated, no one ever tells me.

Melvin Burgess

WorkDayMeWritingRestYou

To fly we have to have resistance.

Maya Lin

FlyResistance

If we knew more about psychology, we would be better equipped to deal with other people's psychological damage which they might project onto us.

Sophie Hannah

PeopleBetterMoreProjectUsDeal

When people do marriage right, they don't complain so much, and so their voices are silenced by the rabble of promiscuous charlatans peddling their pathetic world view as 'progressive.'

Steven Crowder

MarriagePeopleWorldViewRight

In every language you can imagine, I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I don't think you could say something nicer to an entertainer or performer - can't get more respectful.

Steven Adler

PeopleThinkLanguageYouSayMore

I'm like the Shaolin monk, the counselor in the clubhouse.

Torii Hunter

MonkLikeCounselorClubhouse

Television reporters aren't really called reporters. They are called researchers. And that's really all they are.

Tom Wolfe

TelevisionReportersReally

You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.

Miriam Makeba

PeopleMeYouImportantListenCome

I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.

Jonah Hill

CharacterExperienceYouDownPlay

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.

Desiderius Erasmus

GoodLieWillKnowingSpeakingHow

There are many commentators who have said the wrong thing before. That's part of the business.

Donovan Bailey

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