Famous quotes containing the word convinced:
“I am convinced that ... we have reestablished confidence. Wages should remain stable. A very large degree of industrial unemployment and suffering which would otherwise have occurred has been prevented.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“I’ve never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.”
—Toni Cade Bambara (b. 1939)
“Life direct...is what Flaubert and Joyce have convinced themselves the man may never get quite clear of but the artist has nothing to do with. What they can’t admit is that t is overrated: which artists, faking and fumbling it together out of spit and toothpicks, should know best of all.”
—Marvin Mudrick (1921–1986)