Jonathan Franzen Quotes
Only in my 40s did I become a person whose heart lifts whenever he hears a grosbeak singing or a towhee calling, and who hurries out to see a golden plover that's been reported in the neighbourhood, just because it's a beautiful bird, with truly golden plumage, and has flown all the way from Alaska.
Quotes to Explore
-
Isolationism is over.
-
I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
-
Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
-
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
-
I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
-
Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
-
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.
-
I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
-
I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
-
In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
-
I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
-
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
-
The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
-
I'm not the girl next door.
-
We're in danger of breaking our army and preventing our national leaders from having the flexibility to confront not just Iraq and Afghanistan, but crises around the globe.
-
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
-
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
-
I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
-
Something is very, very wrong when people dont have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.
-
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
-
As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
-
Steady of heart, and stout of hand.
-
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
-
Only in my 40s did I become a person whose heart lifts whenever he hears a grosbeak singing or a towhee calling, and who hurries out to see a golden plover that's been reported in the neighbourhood, just because it's a beautiful bird, with truly golden plumage, and has flown all the way from Alaska.
