Jonathan Franzen Quotes

Manhattan is just all bank branches.

Jonathan Franzen

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• Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • World
  • Good
  • Game

• I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Problems

• I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Time
  • Work
  • Kids

• I enjoy directing more when I don't have to direct myself. I like when I can just be the director.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Myself
  • Enjoy
  • Director

• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Role
  • Bull

• You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Flying
  • Stand

• In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Amazing
  • Years
  • Over

• There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Great
  • Matter
  • Authority

• The core of my personality consists of many selves.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Personality
  • Many
  • Core

• I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Cool
  • Married
  • Entrepreneur

• The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Experience
  • Story
  • New York

• There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Together
  • Taken
  • Racism

• When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Happened
  • Before
  • Punk

• We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Live
  • Beautiful
  • Ranch

• I know the difference between true love and the love of my fans.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Know
  • Fans
  • Difference

• The vice presidential candidate does not usually make much difference at the polls. But that may be changing as voters become more aware that the understudy must be ready to take over if needed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • May
  • Difference
  • Presidential

• My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Home
  • She

• Religion is a huge part of me; I'm a practicing Muslim. I'm pretty much open about it if people were to answer questions. At the end of the day, I'm just a normal girl. I have my own beliefs just like everyone else. I have a strong belief in something, but I also love music.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

  

  James Huneker
  • Life

• I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

  

  John Byrne
  • Bad
  • Dream
  • Reality

• I feel like I'm constantly fighting against my exterior, or this exterior presentation of myself, because of how I look or perhaps because of who I'm with.

  

  Amber Heard
  • Fighting

• My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she'd be like, 'Stop singing. Be quiet, you're talking just to hear yourself speak.' It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I'm well suited to interviews. You know, there's no other forum where you're literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • True
  • Mother
  • Stop

• Manhattan is just all bank branches.

  

  Jonathan Franzen