N. Scott Momaday Quotes

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

N. Scott Momaday

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 27, 1934

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Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily's own voice. I wasn't trying to steal her thunder or her music. I simply wanted to imagine my way into the head and heart of Emily Dickinson.

Jerome Charyn

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The patience that goes with the game, the little things that go along with the game, you have so much more time to think in golf than you do in football - you have to keep your thoughts positive. I'm not sure I've got that mastered.

John Elway

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If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, 'Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.'

John Mackey

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When I was 15 and playing in Kalamazoo, I ran into a light pole on the side of the court and was knocked out for a little while - when I woke up, I was seeing stars!

John McEnroe

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In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.

Amish Tripathi

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Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

Rowan Williams

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I think there's a misconception, often times, I think society portrays truckers as people who can't get a better job or maybe uneducated, and I think that's a really unfair assessment.

Michelle Monaghan

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The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Minna Antrim

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A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Jonathan Swift

NatureAmbitionShortSaidLittle

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Christopher Lasch

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Both of my parents were musicians.

Bryan White

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