Tobias Wolff Quotes

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Tobias Wolff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FunnyMemoryControlProblemYou

'Idol' was more of a competition, and that was more of a platform that I wanted to get a hold of and get on top of. And I finally got that opportunity, and now it's more like, I just gotta show and prove myself to everybody that I'm not just the 'balladeer.'

Jessica Sanchez

OpportunityMyselfCompetitionProve

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

John Hope

TimeRiverBankCatfishComeWhale

I don't want to get married, and I don't want to work after I'm 30, so I must manage my fortune somehow in the next seven years.

Anna Held

WorkWantNextYearsFortuneGet

The public school education system has done so much for me that it would be wrong not give anything back.

Amanda Warren

EducationSchoolMeBackWrongDone

I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.

Steven Spielberg

LoveFatherLightMeThinkLove Me

The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

ProblemBackComeLikeTakingShop

I judged entertainers who worked county fairs at age 55 because they had to. Now I get it.

Sinbad

AgeNowBecauseGetWhoJudged

The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.

Robbie Robertson

MusicAmericaCountryNorthNative

Some political spouses are much more comfortable on the campaign trail than others, and they take to it a lot more naturally.

Monica Crowley

PoliticalTrailComfortableOthers

If I read every comment on my YouTube videos, I'd go crazy with people that are saying negative things.

Joshua Bell

PeopleCrazySayingNegativeGo

European leaders cannot afford to be afraid. The refugee crisis is not one from which they can opt out. No magic wand will empower leaders to transport more than a million people back across the Aegean and the Bosphorus to Mosul and Aleppo, or across the Mediterranean to Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan.

Jose Angel Gurria

PeopleMagicBackCrisisEmpower

Of course we are looking to win support across every section of society. We win support by speaking to voters on the issues they most care about.

Douglas Alexander

SupportWinSocietyLookingCare

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