A. N. Wilson Quotes

The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.'

A. N. Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 27, 1950

Topics

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'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're with him throughout this descent into the darker parts of his psyche. The bad that we're capable of is all circumstantial.

Jesse Plemons

GoodGreatCompassionEvilFeelYou

If I need a pick-me-up, I pull up a memo file on my phone and type in three things I'm grateful for. The things I've typed on other days are still there. It's a long list. Always helps.

Andrew Yang

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There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

Andrew Bird

ScienceWordsInterestingLot

One of my favorite directors is Clint Eastwood, and I hear about the way he works, and I think I'm of a similar style. Very few takes - you get what you take, and you move on. It's very much a job and work.

Jeff Nichols

WorkStyleJobThinkYouMove On

I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.

Steven Spielberg

GoodWaitStoryThinkInteresting

I don't consider myself a political artist, but I am political just by nature of being a woman.

Lisa Hanawalt

NatureMyselfWomanI AmPolitical

It's extremely important for our banks to have more capital, higher quality capital.

Janet Yellen

QualityImportantMoreOurHigher

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

Joseph Addison

HumblePeopleWishWishesBecome

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

Douglas Coupland

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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

Christian Nestell Bovee

SoulYouHeavenEarthWillGrave

Sadly, I think that 'Children of Men' has only become an increasingly relevant and realistic portrait of where we are in the world.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

ChildrenMenWorldThinkPortrait

A lot of the things I do deal with my race, but my race is who I am. I'm an American kid who grew up listening to predominantly hip-hop. I will talk about hip-hop as the music I grew up listening to, and I think sometimes people like to put it as, 'Oh, well, he's talking about black things.' And, yeah, they are, but that's my American identity.

Wyatt Cenac

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