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People Quotes by Tobias Wolff
- I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their…
- Our memories tell us who we are and they cannot be achieved through committee work, by consulting other people about what happened. That doesn't mean…
- The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that…
- I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well,…
- You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best…
- Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the…
- It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew…
- Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.
- Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.
- When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and…
- There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of…
- Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle