Gillian Tans Quotes

I found the Internet really fascinating.

Gillian Tans

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

InternetFoundFascinatingReally

I would come home and re-create every movie. Our backyard became a battleship, a war zone, a western town.

John Candy

HomeWarBackyardComeWouldZone

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Max Eastman

MindBelievingAnythingImagineAble

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Stephen Hawking

UniverseKnowWantNothingWhyThan

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

Sigmund Freud

PainRealityEnjoySometimesAccept

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Michael Jordan

YourselfYouThingsExpectBefore

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

Liza Minnelli

BusinessFaceRealityMeanDollar

Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.

Chubby Checker

YouDoneNeverMeanRealizeTop

I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do.

Bruce Catton

FaithGreatMenBraveThinkEnough

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

Aristotle

ArtPersuasionRhetoricMayFunction

I spoke Franglais growing up.

Alison Moyet

Growing UpGrowingUpSpoke

To be successful, one must take chances.

Willie Stargell

ChanceSuccessfulTakeMustChances

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

William J. Clinton

ChangeGoodPowerMoneyTogether

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Gillian Tans