Tobias Wolff Quotes

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

Tobias Wolff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LiveExpressionUsBecauseMostOur

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

John Milton

EndPleasingConcordOft

I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.

John Major

RegretShredAboutEntering

When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn't really know it.

Aneurin Barnard

FatherMotherChildSisterBondKid

Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I'm not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation, communications, repairing the burners, taking care of the equipment.

Steve Fossett

FlyingCareDoingYouFairBalloon

I was 100 percent political in the '80s - the first time around, let's call it, my first life as an artist.

Steven Van Zandt

LifeTimePoliticalArtistFirst

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

Shirin Ebadi

GovernmentCriticismAmericanSoil

Governing is one thing, campaigning is another - and the latter becomes far more pronounced in an election-year State of the Union.

Robert Dallek

MoreOne ThingUnionFarState

I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.

Tom Cruise

LifeGoodMyselfEnergyThinkYou

I pay our nanny more than I'm earning.

Rupert Penry-Jones

MorePayEarningThanOurNanny

I'm a chameleon when it comes to languages.

Mary Steenburgen

ChameleonLanguages

Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.

Douglas Leone

ThinkingLookFancyThingsSlide

Cut your arms and legs off, and you're left with a trunk, which you need to be as strong as possible. It's easier to push over someone who is tall and skinny than someone short and stocky. That's why we work everything from the calves to the neck.

Anthony Joshua

WorkStrongShortPushSomeoneYou

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