Jonathan Franzen Quotes

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

Jonathan Franzen

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• By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

  

  Zach Woods
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Christian
  • Spirit
  • Reaction

• I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Look
  • Pictures
  • Twitter

• They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.

  

  Larry King
  • Live
  • King
  • Television

• I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

  

  Kate Moss
  • You
  • Never
  • Look

• Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Fashion
  • Something
  • Which

• In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Live
  • Grow
  • Old-fashioned

• The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Man
  • Light

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Band
  • Son
  • New

• Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Trust

• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Way
  • Know
  • Retire

• You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • You
  • Masterpiece

• Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'

  

  Ted McGinley
  • You
  • Easy
  • Hollywood

• When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own rope, or held hostage, even as a kid, my reaction was 'C'mon, she's too smart for that.'

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Woman
  • Wonder
  • Smart

• Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Africa

• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Think
  • Me
  • Company

• Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Women
  • Black
  • Fools

• A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Democracy
  • Practice
  • Forced

• Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Me
  • Emotional

• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • God
  • Religion
  • Greek

• I don't know whether we Church members fully appreciate the Book of Mormon, one of our sacred scriptures, as we really should.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Book
  • Church

• ... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

  

  Eugene Wigner
  • Science
  • Purpose
  • Rules

• It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

  

  Jonathan Franzen
  • People
  • Life
  • Die