Richard Corliss Quotes

'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.

Richard Corliss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 6, 1944 - April 23, 2015

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TimeMeVoiceAlwaysWarningOften

The important thing about a sport is the people who devote their lives to it.

Robert Redford

PeopleImportantWhoImportant Thing

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

Sidney Blumenthal

HealthCarePoliticalErrorMade

One makes a trip by day, but by night, one sets out on a journey.

Tove Jansson

JourneyDayNightOutTripMakes

I've never done anything like 'Brotherhood' before. It was a great challenge to take up a part in a live audience sitcom - it was amazing.

Johnny Flynn

LiveGreatChallengeAmazingDone

Most people treat the news media like the exercise bike they have in their basement. They're glad it's there but they never use it.

Drew Curtis

BikePeopleTreatMediaExercise

It doesn't matter if you are number one or number two. You have to prepare for everything.

Chen Long

YouMatterPrepareTwoEverything

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Alfred North Whitehead

TimeWordsSpeakWillOutDeeds

With 'A Hijacking' I didn't talk to anyone who had been hijacked, but with 'A War,' I talked to as many soldiers as possible trying to understand how is it in Afghanistan.

Pilou Asbaek

WarTryingUnderstandPossibleTalk

If you want a product that's thicker with a bigger battery, it's also heavier, more costly, takes longer to charge.

Phil Schiller

YouWantProductMoreBiggerCharge

I think this is a part of John McCain that a lot of people don't know about, is that he took younger senators under his wing. And, in my case, I - he taught me so much about national security and foreign policy, even when we didn't always agree. He took me four times with him to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Susan Collins

PeopleMeThinkSecurityKnowHim

White Americans have a short memory.

Sherman Alexie

MemoryShortWhiteShort Memory

I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.

Richie Havens

MusicTimePurposePeopleSinging

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