I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscio...
TOBIAS WOLFF There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a ...
TOBIAS WOLFF I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings ...
TOBIAS WOLFF We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
TOBIAS WOLFF I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a ...
TOBIAS WOLFF But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little...
TOBIAS WOLFF Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I hav...
TOBIAS WOLFF Why were Jack and his brother digging post holes? A fence there would run parallel to the one that a...
TOBIAS WOLFF I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.
TOBIAS WOLFF Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that...
TOBIAS WOLFF Getting from La Jolla to Alta Vista State Hospital isn't easy, unless you have a car or a breakdown....
TOBIAS WOLFF And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you ca...
TOBIAS WOLFF There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things...
TOBIAS WOLFF Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
TOBIAS WOLFF Want! You must want something. What do you want?
TOBIAS WOLFF I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that d...
TOBIAS WOLFF I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own...
TOBIAS WOLFF It was like fishing a swamp, where you feel the tug of something that at first seems promising and t...
TOBIAS WOLFF Happiness is endless hapiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.
TOBIAS WOLFF And in my heart I despised the life I led in Seattle. I was sick of it and had no idea how to change...
TOBIAS WOLFF I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being reali...
TOBIAS WOLFF When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disp...
TOBIAS WOLFF We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That i...
TOBIAS WOLFF Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he’d ...
TOBIAS WOLFF Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.
ANDREW TOBIAS There's no such thing as altruism.
ANDREW TOBIAS Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
TOBIAS SMOLLETT One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that th...
ANDREW TOBIAS I hope it will make them a lot more confident about money - and a lot less susceptible to foolish mi...
ANDREW TOBIAS I don't like the fact that he's given more money — up and down the Republican ticket —...
ANDREW TOBIAS It's complete freedom of expression, almost instant gratification, ... No two-month delay until your...
ANDREW TOBIAS You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.
ANDREW TOBIAS I have three sons, and the oldest wants to play pirates all the time. It has all these associations ...
TOBIAS LINDHOLM Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We&#...
TOBIAS LINDHOLM The Supreme Court has not directly faced the issue of whether 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegianc...
CARL TOBIAS It was difficult for me to think of another situation where a court has said this to the government.
CARL TOBIAS It's too early to tell. Some people believe that Roberts may be similar to Rehnquist in his jurispru...
CARL TOBIAS It's quite natural for mass tort cases to proceed under multidistrict litigation.
CARL TOBIAS It's quite natural for mass tort cases to proceed under multidistrict litigation,
CARL TOBIAS It might give them pause to think they might be sued and hauled into court.
CARL TOBIAS It was the intellectual elite of the conservative movement that expressed the most concern, not the ...
CARL TOBIAS If he had not testified, it seems likely the jury would have come in in his favor.
CARL TOBIAS She has tried as hard and she can to get this difficult case right, and then she is confronted with ...
CARL TOBIAS It is a strong endorsement. The question is: How relevant is it? Someone who was on the 3 rd Circuit...
CARL TOBIAS The government is going to lose a very good ruling to avoid having this go before the Supreme Court.
CARL TOBIAS At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex ...
TOBIAS HILL 'War and Peas' by Michael Foreman, one of the great British children's illustrators. His...
TOBIAS HILL While many are focusing on the infamous bankrupt entities as the primary culprits for the market los...
TOBIAS LEVKOVICH It's very difficult for Specter to thread the needle, because of all the obligations he has, ... The...
CARL TOBIAS I don't think anybody today sees a reason for a filibuster, but they may after the hearing if the an...
CARL TOBIAS It was a battle throughout. If one of those (shots) goes in, the rest of the game is very different.
DAN TOBIAS 'Rome' plays on universal human emotions that hopefully people can relate to. Historians are...
TOBIAS MENZIES This is very encouraging because it says that in mice we don't find any abnormalities, so then it is...
TOBIAS BRAMBRINK Right now it seems like the uncertainty would make senators more circumspect with Roberts.
CARL TOBIAS Specter is the key, and then it comes down to moderate Republicans and where we were in May.
CARL TOBIAS The tobacco industry has won some recent cases, and that Illinois case was a big one. But I think to...
CARL TOBIAS I want to be Brave, and Selfless,
and smart, and Kind, and honest.
TOBIAS EATON There are strong opportunities to be found in both Bulgaria and Croatia. You get twice the size of t...
TOBIAS JUST (Arizona assistant coach) Harold (Warren) said to me, 'She's a difference maker. (It's) just her pre...
DAN TOBIAS To what one person is cheap, to another is being prudent ... and I know people who'd rather not have...
BENJAMIN TOBIAS The general public absolutely treats (financial matters) too lightly.
BENJAMIN TOBIAS Negligence is much easier to prove; it's the failure to exercise reasonable care. Willful misconduct...
CARL TOBIAS It depends on how extensively she was involved in policy making in her five years in the White House...
CARL TOBIAS It's always unpredictable saying what the docket will look like in 10 years, ... It could be high-te...
CARL TOBIAS If powerful upward earnings estimate revisions have not been able to drive equity prices higher, we ...
TOBIAS LEVKOVICH That's where Rehnquist was at his most vocal, ... He was always willing to fight for an independent ...
CARL TOBIAS very articulate but sort of reserved, almost kind of shy. And so I think he is a very likable sort o...
CARL TOBIAS The question is, can they have their cake and eat it too?
CARL TOBIAS [The ground rules for asking and answering questions] are kind of ad hoc, ... they invoke the histor...
CARL TOBIAS The witness whose testimony was struck was their first and perhaps their strongest witness, and so t...
CARL TOBIAS I did all I could, but there was nothing more in there for me. I had light cramps in my arm. Of cour...
TOBIAS ANGERER I was pretty shocked because he isn't really a small act in any way, so it was impressive to hear th...
BRANDON TOBIAS When you have a 6-11, 7-feet guy, almost 300 pounds, it is kind of hard for him to get up and down t...
BRANDON TOBIAS We beat them two years ago. We know we can play with Kentucky or any other high-powered team as long...
BRANDON TOBIAS You have to feel the mix and you have to feel the work and the sweet somehow which somebody is inves...
TOBIAS THOMAS Larger imports apparently more than compensate for production losses in the Gulf.
TOBIAS MERATH It seems as if we have re-entered the bizarre world in which every piece of news must be interpreted...
TOBIAS LEVKOVICH He is saying as little as he needs to be confirmed and hasn't made many mistakes that trouble a majo...
CARL TOBIAS This could expose Merck to substantial liabilities.
CARL TOBIAS The question is how high the liability shield needs to be. I think 'willful misconduct' is too high....
CARL TOBIAS The juries you draw in federal courts are more favorably inclined to institutional defendants.
CARL TOBIAS Sometimes you'll see a story about a kid like Billy on the news and wonder how nobody stepped in, ho...
TOBIAS WADE she was the perfect version of what she was. In life, that's all anyone can aspire to be
TOBIAS WADE When Marla didn't want to talk about something she always made sure her mouth was otherwise occupied...
TOBIAS WADE But the quickest way to a man's heart is also the quickest way to make him lose half his brain cells
TOBIAS WADE I should've just been happy I was getting my dick sucked. But sometimes curiosity outweighs our bett...
TOBIAS WADE Yet however trying they are, it's in these moments of deep sadness that I feel most like myself. I'v...
TOBIAS WADE Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish ...
TOBIAS HILL I've been really lucky to have had a variety of roles, and I don't think I'm in danger o...
TOBIAS MENZIES I remember auditioning for 'Moulin Rouge!,' the part that Ewan McGregor played. I was so you...
TOBIAS MENZIES This is too much of a good thing, so there might be a correction that will occur.
TOBIAS JUST The best things in life are four letter words. Love, fuck, and free
TOBIAS WADE He anticipated an attack on him. I have a lot of respect for a judge who, presented with a difficult...
CARL TOBIAS Claire and McCall played every minute of every game last year, and that wasn't by chance. They deser...
DAN TOBIAS The good thing was we scored a goal first, they got the equalizer and we never gave up. Let me rephr...
DAN TOBIAS I wasn't too pleased with how we played after we scored. It's like we stopped supporting each other....
DAN TOBIAS We certainly did a good job for the first 20 minutes, but for whatever reason we just didn't play we...
DAN TOBIAS At this point in the season, it's the second half of conference play. The good thing about our group...
DAN TOBIAS This is a tough place to play. We are very pleased with coming away from this game with a win agains...
DAN TOBIAS One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is tha...
ANDREW TOBIAS My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and al...
TOBIAS LINDHOLM I don't know how she did it.
DAN TOBIAS I can't help suspecting, that there is, or may be some regurgitation from the bath into the cistern ...
TOBIAS SMOLLETT I enjoy motivating the girls and just helping them achieve what they are capable of...reaching their...
KRISTY TOBIAS I may have April off and that's about it.
KRISTY TOBIAS There is a spirit component but the girls have to have a lot more skills.
KRISTY TOBIAS I feel it's more of a sport than it used to be.
KRISTY TOBIAS We're not trying to entrap motorists.
PRISCILLA TOBIAS The programs of these specific recipients were chosen because these are organizations that have exis...
RANDALL TOBIAS It's sad to see Munster come off the board, but at the same time it's nice to see people get up to s...
ROBIN TOBIAS I was hoping we could put two new faces (on the board). To end up in the majority, that's great.
TOBIAS PAQUETTE Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That ...
NAT WOLFF Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a...
NAT WOLFF I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
NAT WOLFF I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started bangi...
NAT WOLFF I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
NAT WOLFF Every single movie I go up for I'm just checking the phone to see if the e-mail's come in, t...
NAT WOLFF When romance is done well in a movie, it's awesome.
NAT WOLFF I've been kind of lucky. I've always just kind of followed whatever my passion was, and that...
NAT WOLFF I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skippe...
NAT WOLFF Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's ...
NAT WOLFF It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their pa...
NAT WOLFF I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that i...
NAT WOLFF Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been ...
NAT WOLFF I'm a huge Nirvana fan.
NAT WOLFF I have very weirdly realistic dreams where it could be real life, except it's not.
NAT WOLFF 'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's be...
NAT WOLFF I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.
NAT WOLFF I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jea...
NAT WOLFF I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare ...
NAT WOLFF There's no master plan; I'm just going with what I'm inspired to do and what I get asked...
NAT WOLFF I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
NAT WOLFF Yeah, it would hurt us, but I think there's a lot of cities it would hurt a lot worse,
ALAN WOLFF It is far less in several respects than what we were seeking, but it is something we've accepted. Th...
ALAN WOLFF There will be strong rights...to go after counterfeiting of goods. Implementation is going to be a r...
ALAN WOLFF What one would want to see is a rising standard of living in China, ... so their people could afford...
ALAN WOLFF It's not a pocketbook issue for the American consumer. We're already applying pretty low tariffs to ...
ALAN WOLFF The White House knows the U.S. industry still confronts serious issues including massive global over...
ALAN WOLFF Without pressure from us, the expansion of the service area and services offered wouldn't have happe...
ALAN WOLFF Writing has nothing to do with pretty manners, and less to do with sportsmanship or restraint [...]<...
GEOFFREY WOLFF Hate is not a good counselor.
VICTORIA WOLFF It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite...
NAT WOLFF I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I sti...
NAT WOLFF Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz...
NAT WOLFF If I'm not doing anything, I get really antsy and bored.
NAT WOLFF Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sou...
CHRISTOPH WOLFF What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find m...
ISABEL WOLFF I think everybody's intensity level just picked up. We started to rebound a little bit better. We ra...
NICOLE WOLFF They were a really tough team and went after the ball hard, but we could have boxed them out better....
NICOLE WOLFF [But some of the Wizards players were very well aware of what was going on elsewhere in the conferen...
JOSH WOLFF I definitely think we're a better team than last year. I don't think we're a playoff team yet, but w...
ALLYSON WOLFF She's the leader out there. She's got a great arm, knows how to take control out there and has aweso...
ALLYSON WOLFF She's got a good fastball and she's working on her change up.
ALLYSON WOLFF I mean no disrespect, but ...
MICHAEL WOLFF It is no major composition but an occasional work in the form of an exquisite and highly refined str...
CHRISTOPH WOLFF Women have always been the guardians of wisdom and humanity which makes them natural, but usually se...
CHARLOTTE WOLFF When the Saints fell behind 7-0 in the first quarter, someone from Louisiana told me they would have...
NELSON WOLFF We came out here to get peaches every year.
JUANITA WOLFF It was a tough make, but it was clearly after the horn went off. We did get it up there pretty quick...
DENNIS WOLFF I think you can overanalyze these things to where you're going to drive yourself nuts. The last two ...
DENNIS WOLFF That was one of the softest performances by a BU team in six years - in every way.
DENNIS WOLFF Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable.
CHRISTIAN WOLFF My call for no severance is not vindictive, but necessary to show how serious we take his misdeeds, ...
PAUL WOLFF I think Mel and I did a good job not allowing her to catch the ball, and when she did catch it not a...
NICOLE WOLFF When the source is a story. That's a softball question.
MICHAEL WOLFF We built the arena for the Spurs (the SBC Center in 2002). We have a capacity in our bonds maybe to ...
NELSON WOLFF In summary, as neighboring property owners we object to the development of the park into such a high...
VIKKI WOLFF I feel really good about this. It gives me a comforting feeling knowing he wants me in the game. I'v...
NICOLE WOLFF Maybe we'll have vampire prom."
He shot me an appalled look. "What is this, Twilight?
VERONICA WOLFF big, old rambling house in Corrales.
JUANITA WOLFF There is no question that some of the material in the cache is authentic, It seems that the cache is...
CHRISTOPH WOLFF You may just want wait and see if there's any more (beyond Bailey's incarceration) that we don't kno...
NELSON WOLFF Transparency and compliance with the law are factors of further development,
CHRISTIAN WOLFF Authors are some of the best actors in the world - with multiple personality disorder.
RIP WOLFF Who you choose to surround yourself with will determine if you fail, or if you will succeed. Assets ...
STEVEN WOLFF The destination is fulfilling when the path is authentically your own; find the courage and forge yo...
JESSLYN WOLFF I think the defense is playing hard. But still, our margin for error is not that great. There are st...
DENNIS WOLFF The kid is a very good shooter, as good as I've recruited since I've been a coach here. He's gonna m...
DENNIS WOLFF It's a play that's designed to get him a shot, but I can't take too much credit. I designed plays fo...
DENNIS WOLFF I thought our kids gave a real gusty effort. They didn't appear to be intimidated by the circumstanc...
DENNIS WOLFF I think Hassan, Geffen [and] Macon all played very well. Considering that Gardner didn't play, this ...
DENNIS WOLFF I started him in the second half, that's how it works. If you produce, you play.
DENNIS WOLFF This is the best game he's played in college. He was very efficient, very active on both ends of cou...
DENNIS WOLFF I think it feels very good to get the win. We've played very hard lately but we haven't been able to...
DENNIS WOLFF We started three guys who haven't played a minute of Division I basketball in this type of environme...
DENNIS WOLFF It's a sweet deal for the firm. Most workers will wind up worse off as a result of the defined contr...
EDWARD WOLFF It would be very unusual for workers to make up for the shortfall and it might certainly be a good w...
EDWARD WOLFF With IBM gone, it won't be long before a lot of other companies follow suit.
EDWARD WOLFF Things are not looking good for retirees with the collapse of the defined benefit plans. In 20 years...
EDWARD WOLFF We don't usually do that before games. It was different, but I think it motivated everybody because ...
NICOLE WOLFF I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. ...
ISABEL WOLFF Why were we so full of hope in those days? Looking back, I see so clearly that violence was worsenin...
KAIMANA WOLFF It's more of an attitude of constant vigilance, and making sure that they don't fall through the cra...
LOWELL WOLFF Meeting your adoptive baby is like being set up on a blind date with someone you will have to spend ...
JANA WOLFF I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friends...
JANA WOLFF What a surprise. I'm very pleased. I think it worked out well for Billy and for Ken and for the play...
LEWIS WOLFF What a surprise, ... I'm very pleased. I think it worked out well for Billy and for Ken and for the ...
LEWIS WOLFF I like the A's best, but I like the White Sox and Angels,
LEWIS WOLFF It's the single-most creative thing I've seen done (in San Jose) in a long time.
LEWIS WOLFF I think it would be premature and self-serving.
LEWIS WOLFF