Michener Center Quotes & Sayings

But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human. — Caitlin Moran

As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops. — Shunroku Hata

What made a friend a best friend? Did it have to be someone who knew your people, who shared your life outlook or your views on religion or politics? Could it just be someone who could talk and listen and commiserate? — Barbara Delinsky

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth. — Thomas Berry

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center. — James A. Michener

Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens. — Victor Hugo

This is my heart - carry it with you. I will dream of you in the dark, and you will taste it in my tea, and feel it in my shoes. — Catherynne M Valente

The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks. — Swami Vivekananda

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy. — Dan Bartlett

I can't remember who said it - I think it was Allan Gurganus when he was visiting the Michener Center - but he told us to "spend [our] gold," meaning, put everything you have into a story. Other "gold" will be waiting for you for your next project. — Mary J. Miller

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour. — Adam Hochschild

Don't allow your life disappear into an abstract mirage — Sunday Adelaja

The person in the I'M OK - YOU'RE NOT OK position suffers from stroking deprivation. A stroke is only as good as the stroker. And there are no OK people. Therefore there are no OK strokes. Such a person may develop a retinue of "yes men" who praise and stroke him heavily. Yet he knows they are not authentic strokes because he has had to set them up himself, in the same way he had to produce his own stroking in the first place. The more they praise him the more despicable they become, until he finally rejects them all in favor of a new group of yes men. "Come close so I can let you have it" is an old recording. That's the way it was in the beginning. — Thomas A. Harris