Quotes
Authors
Michael J. Sullivan

"And you? Did you find the doorknob?â€ Hadrian picked up a jug and downed several swallows, drinking so quickly some of the water dripped down his chin. He poured some in his palm and rinsed his face, running his fingers through his hair. â€œI didnâ€™t even get close enough to see a door.â€ â€œWell, look on the bright sideâ€â€”Hadrian smiledâ€”â€œat least you werenâ€™t captured and condemned to death this time.â€ â€œThatâ€™s the bright side?â€ â€œWhat can I say? Iâ€™m a glass-half-full kinda guy."

-- Michael J. Sullivan

#Running Quotes #Drinking Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“My job is to lay it out clearly, not to give my policy prescriptions.Very little journalism is world changing. But if change is to happen, it will be because people with power have a better sense of whatâ€™s happening to people who have none.”
“Young people can be disruptive and screw up classes. But even if they are being a pain in the arse it's a cry for help - they don't feel like they are being listened to.”
“My favorite was going as a boxer when I was 9 years old and wearing my dad's boxing gear.”
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
“Once you do a piece on the stage, you become that poem or you become that piece. That's really who you are. I think that's why some artists have stage names, you know? I don't have a stage name, it's pretty much just me.”
“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
“When a woman extends her hand for you to shake it, then you shake her hand. You do not turn it up and kiss it. And it is just so creepy. Because, you know, I handed it at this angle. I handed it at the handshake angle and so I'm not giving it to you to do whatever you want with it. I'm not loaning it to you. It's like if somebody borrowed your lawnmower and you're assuming they're going to use it to mow their lawn. You don't want to find out later they put it in the ocean!”

Source : "Who's Bill This Time". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. August 2, 2014.
“If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then itâ€™s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.”

Source : "'There Is Another World in Our World': A Conversation with J. M. Ledgard" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2013.

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