David McCullough Quotes

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.

David McCullough

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HopeMeBookInterestingI CanKind

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

John L. Lewis

LiveFaithAmericanLaborRight

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

John Philip Sousa

PeopleAmericaSheExpectWell

A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.

Stewart Udall

BestEndingEndNewsWiserLand

I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.

Robert Carlyle

WorkDayDoingWeekEvery DayWould

I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.

Mila Kunis

LifeLearningEatingEnjoyLiving

My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Mike Birbiglia

WarGoThroughBoxesLikeToast

When a child's mind develops and is heading in a certain direction, we murder that mentality, we murder that imagination, by saying, 'Now, that is all well and good, but now sit down and start to study.'

Derek Walcott

GoodImaginationChildMindStart

When you're not good, and you are losing, and a team puts 50 on you, you gotta figure something out.

Chris Harris, Jr.

GoodLosingTeamYouOutSomething

So, yes, I am in the underground, but actually, it feels like home.

Anthony Braxton

HomeI AmYesLikeUndergroundAm

I hate doing Tabatas - you do whatever you want at high intensity for 20 seconds, and then get a 10 second break and you repeat that for 8 minutes. So you can do jumping jacks for 20 seconds, you can do sprints for 20 seconds, etc. It's supposed to help you get your endurance up really fast.

Ashley Wagner

HateDoingHelpYouFastEndurance

I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with friends and try not to take myself too seriously.

William T. Vollmann

LifeMyselfDayFriendsEnjoyTry

Many times, I left the prison thinking, 'I'm smart. I can make it. I won't get caught up again.' But you get off downtown Skid Row, and you're a target for all of the environmental harms in that area. The pain and trauma in that area is so thick, you can almost reach your hand out and touch it.

Susan Burton

PainSmartEnvironmentalThinking

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