Dinty Quotes

#1. Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with clear-eyed honesty and grace. Tailings is simply an exquisite book.

Dinty W. Moore

#2. Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

Johan Huizinga

#3. Cars, with their air conditioning, windows, sound systems, and great speed, keep us isolated from our environment ...
"Self-propulsion," such as biking, walking, canoeing, puts us in touch with the land below and the world around us.

Dinty W. Moore

#4. The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. - THOMAS PAINE

Dinty W. Moore

#5. I wanted to see if you could put a prototype radio station on the Internet so you wouldn't have to invest $50 million or $100 million or $150 million to buy a transmitter and a frequency.

Tom Leykis

#6. But if we don't prefer things, then we increase our chances to be content.

Dinty W. Moore

#7. We are rushing, always thinking of the future, of our destination, focusing on what is four hours, or four hundred miles, or four years ahead, and constantly missing what is right there, just then, at the moment.

Dinty W. Moore

#8. Ironically, I remember that not even the pretty girls were exempt from this sick breed of torment. And if they couldn't escape it, what about me?

Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

#9. You know, 'Jake 2.0' had some funny things in it; I mean, I needed my sense of humor to do that part.

Christopher Gorham

#10. Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.
It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

Dinty W. Moore

#11. It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution.

Bill Gurley

#12. Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.
In your writing and your life.

Dinty W. Moore

#13. The difference between a story and an essay is that the storyteller just wants to entertain the reader, while the essayist has been to graduate school.

Dinty W. Moore

#14. A good cry is like a good rain ... Afterwards everything is washed clean, and for awhile, you can see for miles.

Jax Peters Lowell

#15. I have people coming to me every day, coming to my office, with life-threatening diseases - life-threatening diseases - and they were dropped from their health care because of the Affordable Care Act.

Michael Grimm

#16. Not all writing is political or revolutionary, but the very act of giving yourself permission to write, to speak, to share the truth no matter whether the truth you understand is the truth others want to acknowledge, is brave, powerful, and important.

Dinty W. Moore

#17. Those are serious questions. Let me avoid them as best I can.

Dinty W. Moore

#18. Can it be chat modesty may more betray
Our sense than woman's lightness?

William Shakespeare

#19. Say what you will about Gypsy women, but they are remarkable assessors of blues guitar talent.

Gary Gulman

#20. My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

Vanessa Carlton

#21. Here's what I think: the five most
unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and
jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and by far the hardest to conceal.

Douglas Coupland

#22. Morality and honor are not to be confused. The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

H.L. Mencken

#23. What are minnows but brief flashes? And what are thoughts? And how do you capture a brief flash, even for a second?

Dinty W. Moore

#24. Memory is like a rope, knotted every three or four feet, and hanging down a deep well. When you pull it up, just about anything might be attached to those knots. But you'll never know what's there if you don't pull. And the more you pull at that rope, the more you find.

Dinty W. Moore