Tobias Wolff Quotes

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.

Tobias Wolff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChangeOpportunityTimePeopleYou

I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.

John Gokongwei

FamilyFatherTeacherTimeMoneyMe

If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and researched. I really don't feel like I can wing it. So I write it out word for word, and when I'm onstage I'll improvise around it.

Andy Daly

FeelI CanToo MuchWriteStageOut

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

Steve Jobs

PeopleThinkBetterInterestingWill

The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.

Steve Sabol

FootballWarWorldMoreHumanGoing

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

Brian May

AchievementGuitarFirstBigWanted

We're complex human beings. I can wear a leather dress and still have an 8-year-old and wipe up the eggs that are on her face.

Bozoma Saint John

DressFaceI CanHumanLeatherUp

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Thomas Fuller

TravelFoolManWiseBetterWorse

I do a lot of yoga. I practice yoga three or four times a week. It's an escape for me.

Nina Dobrev

PracticeMeWeekThreeEscapeFour

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.

Martin Cruz Smith

AttitudePeopleCityUnderstanding

Even while starting out I took things very seriously; I wasn't the sort of kid that would do a doll commercial or do a series for Nickelodeon. They asked me to do silly things, and I wasn't a silly kid.

Kristen Stewart

MeSillySeriouslyKidStartingOut

We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.

Grover Norquist

LaughNobleBecauseFavoriteCause

I've always been able to look very different very easily.

Gwendoline Christie

LookAlwaysDifferentBeenAble

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