Alastair Reid Quotes

#1. When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]

Jorge Luis Borges

#2. Only the curious have, if they live, a tale worth telling at all.

Alastair Reid

#3. A fighter has to know fear.

Cus D'Amato

#4. I don't even know why I'm saying this in an interview situation, but I always feel like I'm not good enough for some reason. I wish that wasn't the case, but left to my own devices, that voice starts speaking up.

Trent Reznor

#5. To the judgmental eye, everything is closed in definitive frames. When the judgmental eye looks out, it sees things in terms of lines and squares.

John O'Donohue

#6. My favorite TV couple is Edith and Archie Bunker. Because they were such individuals that I can't imagine anyone else playing them. And I think that Archie was one of the greatest characters ever on television. Even with his flaws, you loved him.

Michael Jai White

#7. When I was a child, she'd have me wash the lettuce ten times or open walnuts by hand to make a cake. I was like, 'Mom, this is ridiculous.' But now? I run my kitchen the same way.

Daniel Humm

#8. And what cats have to tell
on each return from hell
is this: that dying is what the living do,
that dying is what the loving do,
and that dead dogs are those who do not know
that dying is what, to live, each has to do.

Alastair Reid

#9. Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.

Haruki Murakami

#10. We should be involved in quiet acts of selfless service.

Spencer W. Kimball

#11. Success at any endeavor on an elite level demands selfishness.

Garth Stein

#12. Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property 'without just compensation.' The basic model of an unconstitutional 'taking' would be if the government threw you out of your house.

Michael Kinsley

#13. The record is not simply a storage device. Its value resides in the particular set of memories and emotional associations held by its owner. These are inseparable from the physical object, which is no longer a physical object but an article of faith.

Steve Almond

#14. A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government.

Bryant McGill

#15. Tornados touch down. They don't settle. They leave destruction in their wake.

Karen Marie Moning

#16. You will make the world a magnificent place with the magic of your kindness, beauty, peace, and happiness.

Debasish Mridha