John D'Agata Quotes
I'm an essayist. And this is a genre that has existed for a few thousand years. Ever heard of Cicero? So these rules that I'm working under are not mine but rather were established by writers who recognized the difference between the hard research of journalism and the kind of inquiry of mind that characterizes the essay.
John D'Agata
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
Venus Williams
I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
Iris Apfel
Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
Barton Gellman
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
Carly Fiorina
In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
Victoria Osteen
Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
Sam Graves
Beulah, Peel me a grape.
Mae West
For me to do my job effectively, we need to continue to earn public confidence. That involves transparency and accountability.
Elizabeth Esty
Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.
Carol J. Adams
I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...
Patrick Ness
The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get.
G. E. M. Anscombe
I'm an essayist. And this is a genre that has existed for a few thousand years. Ever heard of Cicero? So these rules that I'm working under are not mine but rather were established by writers who recognized the difference between the hard research of journalism and the kind of inquiry of mind that characterizes the essay.
John D'Agata
