“You can get carried away with how things were once, and not how you need to make them better.”
Richard Ford (1944) American novelist and short story writer
Source: Wildlife (1990), p. 171
“I had one of those steel thermal mugs you carried everywhere with you as a kind of signifier of how busy, and therefore how important you were.”
Source: World Made By Hand (2008), Chapter 4, p. 22
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "I had one of those steel thermal mugs you carried everywhere with you as a kind of signifier of how busy, and therefore…" by James Howard Kunstler?
James Howard Kunstler45
American writer 1948Related quotes
Fred Rogers (1928–2003) American television personality
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Thoughts For All Ages http://pbskids.org/rogers/all_ages/thoughts1.htm
“… home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.”
Pico Iyer (1957) British writer
Source: The Man Within My Head
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
On the loss of a suitcase containing work from his first two years as a writer, as quoted in With Hemingway (1984) by Arnold Samuelson
“I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?”
Mick Jagger (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones
Kristi Noem (1971) South Dakota politician
Miller, Emily. Rep. Kristi Noem: Head of the Class http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41749, Human Events, February 14, 2011.
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
New Year's Address to the Nation (1990)