Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• I'm here today because I hated everything else.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Today
  • Everything
  • Here

• Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Time
  • Small
  • Best

• I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Color

• I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

  

  Larry David
  • Like
  • Big
  • Splash

• I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.

  

  Usher
  • Like
  • Something
  • Michael

• People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Character
  • Opinion

• Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Trying
  • Popular
  • Belief

• As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Different
  • Christian

• I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.

  

  Oliver North
  • Remember
  • Young
  • Divided

• I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Women
  • Character
  • Career

• 'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Writer
  • Monday

• Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Important
  • Live
  • May

• I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • American

• Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Same
  • Measure
  • Selling

• Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Right

• I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

  

  John Ratzenberger
  • Up
  • Character

• Whenever money is involved, there is elitism.

  

  Jacque Fresco
  • Money

• When I moved to Paris at 16, I held a dinner party in my first apartment and served only red wine, French fries, and mashed potatoes. Unable to cook, I relied on people taking me out.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • People
  • Party
  • Red

• I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Life