David Means Quotes

As a story writer, you have work with sharp but relatively small tools, the picks of metaphor, the shovel blade of images, the trowel of point of view, and then you delicately lift and brush in the revision with love and care knowing that one slip, and you might damage an extremely delicate thing.

David Means

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 17, 1961

Topics

WorkLoveSmallStoryCareTools

It's not like publishing is perfect. Far from it. The industry is struggling to adapt and survive, and it's incredibly frustrating trying to break in.

Jim C. Hines

SurviveTryingPerfectAdaptBreak

I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're 80 and marriages are jolly long.

Joanna Trollope

LoveLiveLongNeedDaysTwice

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

Jerry Garcia

AmericanAmericaPlaceAlwaysBeen

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.

Stephanie Rice

YouKnowDoneWantEverythingLine

My baby pukes on me. It's life. It's very much a normal life.

Tom Sturridge

LifeMeBabyNormalMuchVery

I love getting older.

Rob Liefeld

LoveGetting OlderOlderGetting

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

Robin Wright

LoveBeautyPoetryHardActJust

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.

Robert Wilson

EyesWordsManMePerformanceThink

I have to think about the future because, not that I'm bored with it now, but I can't live now, it's not my place to live now. I've got to live ahead of myself.

Ross Lovegrove

FutureLiveMyselfThinkPlaceNow

Here in Indiana, we run a nationally-recognized program called the Healthy Indiana Plan. The Healthy Indiana Plan offers the uninsured an affordable health care plan with savings accounts that they control.

Mike Pence

HealthControlCarePlanHealthy

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Jean Anouilh

PoliticsNothingIrreparable

Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.

Chevy Chase

HumorComedyYouDownTimingMatter

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