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Mark Helprin Quotes

Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians govern, but only upon the flow of commentary that raises them up or casts them down.

Mark Helprin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 28, 1947

Topics

Down Plans Teach Build Flow Follow

Keeping government running really well, to me, is incredibly important.

Joe Lonsdale

Government Me Important Well Running

It's funny - until 'Catfish,' none of my films were angled at young people except for the fact that they were angled at me and my contemporaries. And that's who I'm constantly making things for. I'm not imagining a younger audience I'm trying to impart wisdom to; I don't want to seem pretentious enough to think I can impart wisdom.

Max Joseph

Funny Wisdom People Me Think Enough

Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.

Michael F. Easley

Education Challenge College Early Us

I like to just make things... If I have the TV on, I'm not just going to sit there. I want to do something with my hands; I've always got a project. Or I get a small group of people over, and I say, 'Let's make these things today.'

Amy Sedaris

Today People Small Hands Want Group

I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.

Stephen Colbert

Work Character City World Think You

One way that whites protect their positions when challenged on race is to invoke the discourse of self-defense. Through this discourse, whites characterize themselves as victimized, slammed, blamed, and attacked.

Robin DiAngelo

Way Race Protect Through Discourse

In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was basically rendered disabled. She was unable to drive, dependent on my dad for everything. The religious zealotry was so suffocating.

Mona Eltahawy

Mother Parents Drive She Everything

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

Milan Kundera

Change New Every Scene Descriptions

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

Diane Ackerman

Nature Live Picture House Windows

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

Deborah Norville

Creative Story Better Magic Look

On the one hand, I'm this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that's where our culture is most in transition and where there's likely to be conflict.

Chris Bohjalian

Culture New York Parents City Me

My stage name has always been 'Armin van Buuren.' When I really started DJ'ing professionally, I already had a few U.K. hits under my belt under the name 'Armin', so I couldn't really change that anymore.

Armin van Buuren

Change Name Always Stage Started