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

He has the memory of a convict, the balls of a fireman, and the eyesight of a housebreaker. When there is crime to fight, Landsman tears around Sitka like a man with his pant leg caught on a rocket. It's like there's a film score playing behind him, heavy on the castanets. The problem comes in the hours when he isn't working, when his thoughts start blowing out the open window of his brain like pages from the blotter. Sometimes it takes a heavy paperweight to pin them down.

Michael Chabon

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Carrie Underwood quote: "Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company..."
Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image. Carrie Underwood
Alan Moore quote: "Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot..."
Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them. Alan Moore
Gregory Bateson quote: "Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it."
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it. Gregory Bateson
Shakespeare and his work will always be relevant. He wrote those pieces hundreds of years ago and we haven't really changed as humans, have we? We have to deal with love, honour and adultery now - people were the same then, too - that's what's so wonderful and powerful. Michelle Dockery
Donald Johanson quote: "One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be..."
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it. Donald Johanson
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. Richard Rorty
When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind's workings. Instead of thinking that I was a failure, could I perhaps accept that I am only a human being--and a normal one, at that? Elizabeth Gilbert
Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families. Martin Luther
Dalai Lama quote: "I am just one human being."
I am just one human being. Dalai Lama
Maya Angelou quote: "It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in..."
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Maya Angelou
Samuel Butler quote: "All truth is not to be told at all times."
All truth is not to be told at all times. Samuel Butler
Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it. Alton Brown
Wanda Sykes quote: "I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show..."
I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business. Wanda Sykes
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us. Emile M. Cioran
I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age... The gods had given me almost everything. I had genius, a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring; I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colour of things: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder... I treated Art as the supreme reality, and life as mere mode of fiction: I awoke the imagination of my century so that... Oscar Wilde