James Howard Kunstler Quotes

Life in the mid-21st century is going to be about living locally. Be prepared to be good neighbors. Be prepared to find vocations that make you useful to your neighbors and to your fellow citizens.

James Howard Kunstler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 19, 1948

Topics

LifeGoodYouFindLivingNeighbors

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

Jerry Doyle

TodayChildhoodPovertyEnemiesAIDS

Writing was, is, and will always be my favorite job.

John Corey Whaley

JobWritingWillAlwaysFavorite

At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.

Andre Previn

TalentYearYouSettleMusically

I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor.

Max von Sydow

GreatHumorImaginationManThink

The fate of your paycheck, the fate of your small business should not rest on what side of the bed a Washington bureaucrat wakes up on.

Jeb Hensarling

BusinessSmallRestFateWashington

I don't like scaring people off. When I tell people I'm a writer, they look kind of interested. Then I tell them that I write poetry, and they think I'm weird.

Amy Gerstler

PoetryPeopleThinkWeirdLookKind

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem.

Stephen Hawking

CannotArgueMathematicalReally

Theological writing is usually done in essays or books, but I hope to show that if we concentrate on sentences, we may well learn something we might otherwise miss.

Stanley Hauerwas

HopeWritingLearnDoneMayWell

As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, 'This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever.'

Tom Cruise

LoveHopeMyselfPeopleThinking

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.

Robert Winston

TodayChildrenThinkEnvironmentOut

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Mary McCarthy

ScienceEqualityFactsEnjoyMatter

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Don Fraser

HomeHappyRightMayGrantsSpouse

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