Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.Jeffrey Eugenides
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
Maajid Nawaz -
We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
Fatos Nano -
A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
Sam Kean -
I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
Warren Littlefield -
I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.
Ian Botham
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You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should have just called it 'Heaven and Hell' right from the beginning. Because you listen to that 'Heaven and Hell' album, that doesn't sound anything close to Black Sabbath.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Sam Snead -
In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
Barton Gellman -
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
Jackie Kennedy -
Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.
Dan Jenkins -
A good cookout ought to last at least six hours; if you haven't eaten and gotten full and gotten hungry and eaten again, you're doing something wrong.
Adam Mansbach
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
Garrison Keillor -
I think the best endings bring you back in rather than close things off with absolute finality. I'm not saying they necessarily have to be ambiguous, but we don't always need to know what happens when everyone wakes up tomorrow morning.
T. C. Boyle -
Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting, you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick, or whatever. In sculpture, you can get a rock. Writing, you just need a pencil and paper. Film has been a very elitist medium. It costs so much money.
Forest Whitaker -
If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.
Barney Oliver -
There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
Olivia Newton-John -
We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.
M. Russell Ballard
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And you know the reason I really love the stars is that we cannot hurt them. We can't burn them or melt them or make them overflow. We can't flood them or blow them up or turn them out. But we are reaching for them. We are reaching for them.
Laurie Anderson -
My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.
Rich Sommer -
I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space.
Sam Heughan -
Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.
Ameen Rihani -
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
Jeffrey Eugenides