Elizabeth Strout Quotes

I'm drawn to New England because that's where my roots are, and I miss it. I come from many generations of New Englanders, and so, in my writing, I've been drawn back there to the landscape and the light and the type of personality that's revealed.

Elizabeth Strout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 6, 1956

Topics

LightPersonalityRootsWritingBack

The function of combat is not merely to perpetrate violence, but to perpetrate violence on command, instantaneously and reflexively. The function of the service academies is to prepare men for leadership positions where they may someday exercise that command.

Jim Webb

LeadershipServiceMenViolenceMay

You can tell a person's morale from their Twitter feed. I like that; it's so honest. And I like being able to follow people who I respect and admire, and the possibility of them seeing my comment about them.

Jessie Cave

RespectPeopleYouSeeingPerson

In western culture, we have ignored death. We're running the other way - everything is about life and youth. So, there's something resonant about walking around with our own death masks. Zombies are the visible embodiment of death staring at us with our own faces.

Andrew Lincoln

LifeCultureDeathYouthWalking

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

John Mayer

GuitarBluesSingerSongwriterJock

I run probably 35-40 miles a week, and I think 80 per cent of your body is what you eat. The biggest part is just eating well.

Matthew Morrison

EatingThinkWeekYouBodyRun

I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably more like Madame Bovary.

Sue Townsend

WomenMeTroubleMoreSheAlways

You are treated like a cog in a machine. The director might be obsessing so much with the stunts that he doesn't notice your performance, and the producer may just be an insane money man, but I have no snobbery about the movies.

Steven Berkoff

MoneyManPerformanceYouMovies

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.

Tom Jenkinson

MusicMakeExistingComplement

The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.

Ronald Ross

MeSmallGrowingBeliefWhat IfShe

The stick-thin thing, I'm kind of just like, 'Not gonna do it' and 'I couldn't.'

Jordin Sparks

KindJustLikeThingGonna

Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.

Donald Rumsfeld

LearnKnowSayWillUsedOften

I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

Bonnie Jo Campbell

ImaginationMeReadingWorryI Can

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