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George Steiner Quotes

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Gray Human Majority Transit Between

I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.

Good Talent Further Than Less

One of the hazards of making a major discovery early in your career is the burden of expectation, not helped in my case by becoming a wife and mother soon afterwards. I'm sure some people think it was a flash in the pan.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Mother Wife People Think Early

My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.

Mother Myself Woman Thought She Get

It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.

Matthew Ashford

Work Good Character Experience You

The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

Job Presidency Electoral

Flatulence peaks twice a day... five hours after lunch and five hours after dinner.

Day Lunch Dinner Twice Five Hours

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

Justice Progress Equality Society

I've always liked Kate Winslet. She's pretty, smart, and talented.

Smart She Always Pretty Talented

I'm deeply in love with my wife, and she's my best friend, and yet we share different viewpoints of life, which I think is one of the things that holds our marriage together. She came from Texas, and she has an optimistic view of life. I came from Detroit and have a very pessimistic view.

Life Love Friend Marriage Best Wife

Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.

Christine Gregoire

Education Future Foundation Build

It's really fascinating stuff, the science of sleep. We don't think of it in terms of that, but it really is.

Christina Applegate

Science Sleep Think Stuff Really

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.

Chuck Palahniuk

Faith Yourself Tired You Down Know

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