Richard Schickel Quotes

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.

Richard Schickel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 10, 1933

Topics

GreatFateBecomeInteriorRespond

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

Jocko Willink

LeadershipFreedomDisciplineFinding

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ImaginationNothingMoreTasteThan

When you have kids, you just love them. It's similar to when you're in love with someone. You just think they are so cool and want to be around them all the time, but what if she starts being embarrassed and only giving me charity visits? I want her to actually want to see me, so that's what I'm going for!

Jeremy Sisto

LoveTimeMeCoolThinkCharity

It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Joel Osteen

GoodFaithFightYouGrowingTest

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

Robert Powell

GoodFindBoyDevelopEverySport

For me, personally, waking up before everyone else in my home allows me to work, respond to emails, or read up on current events without any distractions.

John Rampton

WorkHomeMeEventsDistractionsUp

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

Mickey Mantle

LiveMyselfCareBetterLongGoing

I think that the reason Clinton chose Gore was that he was an example of what Clinton was like. He was kind of almost like the yellow magic marker that you use to highlight the text so that you can really remember what are the most salient features of it.

Dick Morris

YellowThinkRememberMagicYou

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

Anthony Trollope

MorningManReadyNobodyUpDays

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

Aubrey Beardsley

LanguageRudeBoastPoliteWriters

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

Tupac Shakur

FearDeathBackNo FearComingOnly

But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.

Lynn Samuels

GoodLieHonorWantTasteUp

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