Pat Conroy Quotes

I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

Pat Conroy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 26, 1945 - March 4, 2016

Topics

FamilyCharacterPeopleSayNever

People love to hate. I have a love-hate relationship with the world. The world loves to hate me.

Andy Dick

LoveRelationshipHatePeopleWorld

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

John Milton

WarStillEndlessBreed

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

Anna Quindlen

ConflictIndependenceAmericaCountry

I just realized how long it was since the last album, and where did the time go? You know?

Jeff Lynne

TimeLongYouGoKnowWhere

Make in India will not work if we take a conventional linear approach. It has to be a leapfrogging into the future, and India is ideally placed to do this.

Anand Mahindra

WorkFutureIndiaWillTakeMake

Sometimes I love looking super groomed, and sometimes I like to look super weird.

Suki Waterhouse

LoveLookingWeirdLookSometimes

Mike Pence, of course, is a governor with executive experience and doing well in a Midwestern state, but also served in Congress. I served with Mike.

Steve Scalise

ExperienceDoingCongressWellState

This is the new wave, the new generation of terrorism. It's gone viral. It's very dangerous, and it's very hard to stop.

Michael McCaul

GenerationWaveDangerousStopNew

I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.

Josh Mandel

HistoryTimeGovernmentAmerican

I was just blown away by everything my dad was doing, every play. It was amazing to be able to go as a young person to the theater and see these visuals and how creative it could be. More than anything it was realizing you could do that as a life path.

Jorma Taccone

LifePathCreativeAmazingDoingGo

As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it.

Jonas Mekas

MeEyeFeelConfusedDutyWay

These poor wretches were stolen from their homes, carried to a strange country, and sold to servitude, from which they sought to escape on the first occasion which offered.

Philip Hone

CountryEscapeStrangePoorFirst

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