Reconfirmed Quotes

#1. Only miracle is plain; it is in the ordinary that groans with the weight of glory.

Robert Farrar Capon

#2. My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.

Paul Shaffer

#3. That not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Plato

#4. 'Madame Bovary' advanced slowly, as slowly as it would have to have, given an author who held himself accountable to each word, that it be the right word, of which there could be only one.

Kathryn Harrison

#5. Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

Michael Chabon

#6. Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

John Charles Polanyi

#7. We have all been found guilty of being human. There are worse crimes.

Joe Hill

#8. Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy.

Mariana Klaveno

#9. Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.

Don Paterson

#10. I tried for the longest time to find out what deconstructionism was. Nobody was able to explain it to me clearly. The best answer I got was from a writer, who said, 'Honey, it's bad news for you and me.

Margaret Atwood

#11. from Hunter's Moon: Memories are deceptive and imperfect; selective and seductive. They have a way of sneaking up on you. A scent, a color, an idle phrase can trigger them and you're powerless to escape.

Ken Gilland