Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 14, 1934 - April 24, 2002

Topics

LoveKindnessImaginationWillWay

It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.

Robert Sheckley

TimeMeLandscapeLongLong Time

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of 'Fox News' every day and stuff like that.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

DayParentsWatchesEvery DayNews

The best comedy not only makes you laugh, but on the moment of the laugh, you learned.

Jeffrey Tambor

MomentBestLaughComedyYouOnly

There are two ways of dealing with being odd. One is to really try and conform, and the other is to do the opposite and really make a thing out of it. At school, it wasn't that I was bullied, but everyone was very aware that I was different. I was kind of the token weird person that people accepted into their group, almost like an accessory.

Shura

SchoolPeopleWeirdPersonGroup

I've impacted peoples' lives in such a way that they'll never forget.

Rob Van Dam

Never ForgetForgetWayNeverLives

I never had a problem with technique.

Ronaldo

ProblemNeverTechniqueHad

I'm from the DMV, which is D.C.-Maryland-Virginia - Prince George's County in Maryland, to be specific.

Jay IDK

PrinceMarylandSpecificWhich

A successful entrepreneur is one who recognizes her blind spots. You may be the world's best engineer, but you probably have never run a 10-person sales force. You may be a brilliant marketer, but how do you structure a cap table?

Jay Samit

BestWorldBlindYouTableRun

You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how social change happens: you call it out. People had to call out child labor. People had to call out, 'Hey time's up; we need to vote. We live in this country.' People had to call out 'time's up' on enslaving people, you know.

Debra Granik

ChangeLiveTimeChildPeopleYou

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

Clement Freud

FatSamePrettyMuchAroundWhich

I don't play in tournaments, but I follow some.

Boris Spassky

PlayFollowSomeTournaments

I want to tell Jamaica, Happy 50th Anniversary.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

AnniversaryHappyWantTellJamaica

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