English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Michael Chabon Quotes

...she deferred to her partner, to the virtuoso hands of Gwen Shanks, freaky-big, fluid as a couple of tide-pool dwellers, cabled like the Golden Gate Bridge.

Michael Chabon

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Willa Cather quote: "Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious,..."
Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. Willa Cather
Without shedding of blood there is no anything… Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has marked every step of its painful ascent with blood. And now torrents of it must flow again… I don’t think the war has been sent as a punishment for sin. I think it is the price humanity must pay for some blessing - some advance great enough to be worth the price which we may not live to see but which our children’s children will inherit. L. M. Montgomery
Geraldo Rivera quote: "Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get..."
Rich people who own mansions on the beach shouldn't get federal subsidies. If you want to stay there, take the risk. Geraldo Rivera
Bill Toomey quote: "Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family."
Past Olympians have a continuing role within the Olympic family. Bill Toomey
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is..."
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness. Terry Riley
I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving. Nellie Bly
When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I'm not fitting into it lately, but I still have it. Nina Garcia
But my dear young lady," he said offering a cigarette, "who ever said I have a poor opinion of women? On the contrary, I have a very high opinion of women, and the more I see of them the more I like them. Frank O'Connor
Joseph Sobran quote: "Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized..."
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. Joseph Sobran
The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future. Dee Hock
Yogi Berra quote: "It ain't the heat, it's the humility."
It ain't the heat, it's the humility. Yogi Berra
Richard Dawkins quote: "A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total..."
A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. Richard Dawkins
Max Beerbohm quote: "One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great..."
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests. Max Beerbohm
As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president. Dick Morris