Jennifer Egan Quotes

I love the infinite variety of New York, how it's the epicenter of so many worlds.

Jennifer Egan

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• All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Today
  • Want
  • Famous

• While many in the social enterprise space often qualify themselves as 'non-profit,' these organizations should instead treat themselves as 'for-purpose.' These organizations should focus on their mission to create social good, while still treating themselves with the same commitment to rigor and discipline as the best for-profits.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Good
  • Space
  • Focus

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Years

• I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Like
  • Present

• As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Food
  • Change
  • Older

• I wasn't a social butterfly at all.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Social
  • Butterfly

• The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

  

  E. B. White
  • Power
  • Age
  • Man

• Too many actors get on an ego trip and won't do commercials, so they sit around for 20 years between jobs.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Years
  • Ego
  • Sit

• To me, my business is my life.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Life
  • Business
  • My Life

• I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Women
  • Chinese
  • Transformation

• But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Society
  • Process
  • Repetition

• Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Long
  • Home

• I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco.

  

  Gary Cole
  • School
  • High
  • Pretty

• To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Life
  • Look
  • Face

• This is it no more fun the death of all joy has come.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Fun
  • Death
  • Joy

• One, two, three like a bird I sing, 'cause you given me the most beautiful set of wings.I'm so glad you're here today, 'cause tomorrow I might have to go and fly away. Fly away, fly away, fly away, fly away.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Today
  • Beautiful
  • Fly

• Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • Nature
  • Support

• The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

  

  Armstrong Williams
  • Up
  • Work
  • Family

• Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can't get along socially, that they're not good with people.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Good
  • Illness
  • Mathematicians

• Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly looked like flesh to me - like a dead creature. In a flash, I realized that every time I ate any kind of meat, something had been killed for me, and I stopped eating all animals, not just cows and pigs but chickens and fish.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Time

• If the weather is nice, I play tennis, which is pretty much the only exercise that I do. I try to do that as much as I can.

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Pretty
  • Nice
  • Exercise

• I love the infinite variety of New York, how it's the epicenter of so many worlds.

  

  Jennifer Egan