Calvin Trillin Quotes

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

Calvin Trillin

Recitation: by Male by Female

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FoodWellThrowVeryBehaved

The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to enter a life of training.

John Ortberg

LifeAloneTrainingTryingYouWill

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

Jeff Koons

ArtResponsibilityMeBelieveBetter

As a rugby player, you strive to be an All Black, win a World Cup, and win a Super Rugby title.

Sonny Bill Williams

WinWorldBlackYouStriveCup

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Robert Frost

GriefPoliticsPoetryGrievance

Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

River Phoenix

PeopleMeMomentsFindEverything

I'm not great on the florals. I think you've got to wear what you're happy in and that is fun but isn't mutton dressed up as lamb.

Mary Berry

GreatFunHappyThinkYouDressed

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

Mickey Spillane

NameHouseNamesHighLevelStarted

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

Luis Gutierrez

WorkTodayTruthImpossibleTruth Is

I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context.

JR

PeopleAlwaysContextBeenSurprised

I believe in the power of the human spirit.

Bob Harper

PowerBelieveI BelieveHuman Spirit

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything.

Anthony Trollope

YouSellingNowWillBecomeFortune

I'm interested in characters who should know better, who know they should give up, move on, accept life as it is, with all its constraints - life, death, time - but don't.

Alice McDermott

LifeTimeDeathBetterMove OnKnow

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