John Cheever Quotes
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
John Cheever
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
Vera Farmiga
I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
Fiona Apple
When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
Jack Ma
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
Irina Shayk
I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
Xavier Dolan
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.
Christina Romer
If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale.
Douglas Tompkins
There is no time and space in the digital world. People chat and collaborate through social networks. Cultural icons garner millions of fans online in locations they have often never been themselves. The boundary between public and private life is now everyone's business.
Eduardo Paes
The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
W. E. B. Du Bois
You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.
Adam Mansbach
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
John Cheever
