Jennifer Egan Quotes

Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life, and it really is like you're still there.

Jennifer Egan

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• It's been clear for some time that FBI Director Comey has lost the confidence of Republicans, Democrats, and broader institutions, and his removal as FBI Director was probably overdue.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Start

• Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Songs
  • Out

• I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Up
  • Time
  • Art

• I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Future
  • Day

• I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Time
  • Different
  • Training

• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Time
  • Why
  • Song

• Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Life
  • Time
  • High

• Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Mistakes

• Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Society
  • Health

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Business

• I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Player
  • Vision

• A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Principles

• Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Game

• We have spent our time in government fixing the economy.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Time

• We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

  

  Maurice Maeterlinck
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Dog

• When I was 16, I spent a year pushing trollies around a car park, and that wasn't fun. I didn't love working in a supermarket; it wasn't for me. It is for some people, and that's totally cool.

  

  James Bay
  • People
  • Fun
  • Cool

• Focus should be on the art of film, not on the business of film.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Art
  • Business
  • Focus

• I don't do social media.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Media
  • Social
  • Social Media

• Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life, and it really is like you're still there.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music