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Carl Hiaasen Quotes

People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?

Carl Hiaasen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: March 12, 1953

Topics

People Brave Week You Sometimes Say

Women love to be asked more about their clothes than their work. We're dolls; we made a wish to become alive.

Jenny Slate

Work Love Women Wish Clothes Alive

I have two brothers that are musicians. My older brother, Yuval, is a saxophone player. My younger brother, Avishai, is a trumpet player.

Anat Cohen

Brother Musicians Two Trumpet Older

I have to tell you, it's very boring, but before I did yoga, I was a stand-up comedian who can't stand up. And now I can stand on my head.

Maysoon Zayid

Stand Up Stand You I Can Now Boring

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

John McCain

Honesty Best Rest Dream Days Us

Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union.

Michael Gove

Nationalism Union Scottish European

The reason I keep talking about a wife and saying the word 'wife' on stage is because it seems a funny word to me. The more you say it, the more it seems to detach from that person and become this sort of abstract thing: that you would set out to find a wife, that it would be an objective like buying a new car.

Stephen Merchant

Funny Car Wife Me New Car Saying

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.

Robin Hobb

Effort Writing World Reading Think

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Lord Byron

Adversity Truth Path First

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

Christian Lous Lange

Battle Now Engage Against Must

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

Chris Martin

Think You Say Never Anything Big

You need to tell the truth to the audience, or they will throw a brick through the TV. They'll turn you off.

Bryan Cranston

Truth You Brick Will Need Turn

Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.

Scott Spencer

Speak Dangerous Believing Understand