Jenny Offill Quotes

I think that when we're looking at things when we're right in the center of things, as opposed to being a bit unmoored from what's going on around us, we see things through a kind of dulling lens of convention, and there's something about extreme emotional experiences that gives us a heightened clarity, I think, of thought and of feeling.

Jenny Offill

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• A few weeks after my mom passed in November of 2013, I came back from an injury and entered the Egg Bowl in the second half against Ole Miss. I'll never forget the feeling when I walked back out on the field. As I walked into the Egg Bowl, the crowd stood up and clapped like they were enveloping me in a giant hug.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Mom

• In terms of my involvement in 'don't ask, don't tell' and marriage equality and anti-bullying and social emotional learning in schools - these are all things that arise out of my relationship with the world and with my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Learning

• The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Feeling
  • Like
  • Friendship

• I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Feeling
  • Beauty
  • Bird

• There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.

  

  Yuri Andropov
  • Feeling
  • Natural
  • Soviet

• I don't remember feeling love.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Content

• I'm pretty much a dinosaur in the studio. I like things hand-drawn, even today. The story artists use Cintiqs, but I'm the only person who hasn't completely converted to computers. I like the Cintiq, but there's something about the raw emotional power of using paper and pencil.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Power
  • Today
  • Pretty

• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • School
  • Feeling

• If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • High
  • Feeling
  • Team

• The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

  

  Nas
  • Soul
  • Feeling
  • Me

• I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Good
  • Feeling

• For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Home
  • Character
  • Book

• There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Death
  • You
  • Emotional

• A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Women

• I guess my feeling is is that if you're going to make a joke, that's fine, but you should also sort of stand behind it, you know? A joke should be more than a joke, it should be a point that you're trying to make.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Trying
  • Feeling
  • Know

• Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

  

  Mariska Hargitay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Feeling

• I love thinking of cartoon characters feeling really real feelings. And I love to do that, not just as a fan, but as a creator, so if people want to look for those levels, they're actually there.

  

  Rebecca Sugar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.

  

  Anthony Foxx
  • People
  • Trust

• Around 10, I got chubby. I knew I'd crossed a line when the only pants that fit were from the 'Junior Plenty' line at JC Penny. My parents had split up, my mom was going through a dark time, and my brother and I were getting bullied in our new neighborhood. Life was big and unsafe.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Tuscan sausages are smaller than their American cousins, each one demarcated with a string, a graceful loop drawn tightly into a knot - looping and tightening, looping and tightening, a symmetrically floppy, aesthetically appealing rhythm.

  

  Bill Buford
  • American

• I think that when we're looking at things when we're right in the center of things, as opposed to being a bit unmoored from what's going on around us, we see things through a kind of dulling lens of convention, and there's something about extreme emotional experiences that gives us a heightened clarity, I think, of thought and of feeling.

  

  Jenny Offill
  • Feeling
  • Emotional