George Steiner Quotes

Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.

George Steiner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 23, 1929

Topics

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We love a growing private sector that allows people freedom of choice, to choose their health plan, to choose their doctor, to choose their hospital.

John Fleming

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I always lamented that I wasn't a writer during the late '60s and the early '70s, with the New Journalism and Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson and all those people.

Meghan Daum

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In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

Robert Morgan

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I grew up in the 'hood, but it was like growing up in Beverly Hills because there were so many superstars around.

Metta World Peace

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The convergence of digital trends, along with the rise of China and globalization, has upended the rules for almost every business in every corner of the globe.

Steve Blank

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I use every kind of emotion in my wrestling, so that's why people call me the 'King of Strong Style.'

Shinsuke Nakamura

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Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed it.

Trent Dilfer

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Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

Tom Waits

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My best friend - who I've known since I was 12 - and I started the DIEMON company together.

Russ

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I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

Joyce Meyer

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'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

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I actually didn't know anything about Stanford. It was the only school I really did a lot of research on.

Devon Cajuste

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