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

• It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than that performed by slaves.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Done

• Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
  • Attention
  • Focus

• It's the same poison in a new bottle being presented for those who want to drink it.

  

  Evan Wolfson
  • Drink
  • Poison
  • Presented

• With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Character
  • Possibilities

• I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

  

  Emo Philips
  • Friend
  • Door

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

  

  Jennifer Egan