Jennifer Egan Quotes

The sheer sensory experience of San Francisco is unlike anywhere else. Not just the physical beauty, but the textures, the feel, the wind, the ocean. It's a monumental feeling unrivaled by anywhere else. Its a world class, gorgeous city. And the coffee is great.

Jennifer Egan

Quotes to Explore

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

Hans Hofmann
- Art
- Act
- Possibilities
Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

Barton Gellman
My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.

Aaron Neville
- Brothers
- Park
- Bench
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

J. M. Coetzee
- Writing
- She
- Language
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

Yehuda Amichai
- Reason
- Poet
- Himself
For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.

Xavier Rudd
- Real
- History
- Mother