Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes
I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.Jeffrey Eugenides
Quotes to Explore
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Tone can be as important as text.
Ed Koch -
A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
Walter Cronkite -
If I have anything, it's tenacity.
Hal Sparks -
Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.
Fatema Mernissi -
I definitely like wearing leotards.
Maddie Ziegler -
Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
Dada Vaswani
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
Walter Isaacson -
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
W. Clement Stone -
Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.
Manti Te'o -
If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.
Ralph Marston -
I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I think a lot of what I was taught, gathered, and learned is worth keeping. Heritage and 'wisdom' and simply personal family and local history enrich the one able to tap such information. As it is I wish I had garnered more from my grandparents and parents.
Gary Gygax
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In the years that some of my colleagues have served - 20, 30 years - they’ve never seen it like this.
Gabrielle Giffords -
When I was 40 and looking at 60, it seemed like a thousand miles away. But 62 feels like a week and a half away from 80. I must now get on with those things I always talked about doing but put off.
Harry Belafonte -
'There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive.'
Wendelin Van Draanen -
It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.
Ellen Key -
When I was a single, working mom with a newborn, I learned just how vital it is to have comprehensive, affordable health care.
Claire McCaskill -
In all warm-blooded creatures, which are the highest evolved and have feelings, passions and emotions, which reach outward into the world with desire, which may be said to really live in the fuller meaning of the term and not merely vegetate - in all such creatures, the currents of the desire body flow outward from the liver.
Max Heindel
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Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
Lance Reddick -
One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.
Bernard Crick -
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
I'm nervous and awkward.
Dylan O'Brien -
I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.
Jeffrey Eugenides