Jonathan Franzen Quotes

's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.

Jonathan Franzen

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• I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Theatre

• There have been interviews with people saying they are jealous of Kangana. There are so many people who are jealous of my success.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Success
  • Saying

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Money
  • Success
  • You

• A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Others

• I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Happy
  • Relationship

• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Success
  • Years
  • Overnight

• I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Women
  • Power
  • True

• I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Heart
  • Success
  • Failure

• I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Children
  • Age
  • Busy

• I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Age
  • Parents

• I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Long
  • High
  • Age

• I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.

  

  Babyface
  • Write
  • Young
  • Falling

• No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Price
  • Corner

• It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

  

  O. Henry
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Old

• I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Great
  • Women
  • Family

• I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Age
  • Earth
  • Fall

• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • Music
  • Long
  • Love

• Space is waiting for our love, as I am longing for you; go with me, travelling through space.. line in a poem of Klein himself

  

  Yves Klein
  • Space
  • Waiting

• Every day, some act of kindness comes my way, even if it's just someone opening the door. It happens every day if you keep an eye out for it. Keeping an eye out, that's the key.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Eye
  • Door

• Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Persons
  • Humility
  • Assuming

• 's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • Happy
  • Age
  • Success