Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

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• People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

  

  Ed Markey
  • People
  • Money
  • Upside Down

• Interior design is a business of trust.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Trust
  • Design

• I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Best

• If death weren't around to 'finalize' the Darwinian process, we'd all still be amoebas.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Death
  • Process
  • Still

• Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Law

• With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Worry
  • Adapt
  • Global Warming

• I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Believe
  • Care

• I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Design
  • I Can
  • Editing

• For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Music
  • Me
  • Calling

• I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Experience
  • House
  • Man

• I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Will
  • Read
  • Reviews

• Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Ideas
  • Human

• Religion is so much more than the god you pray to. The religion that you associate with, it's culture, it is family, it is background. That is something that I have always grown up with.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Up
  • God
  • Family

• When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Child

• A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Night
  • Wife
  • Paris

• So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Movies, I don't really get the bad guys. In theater, I get more bad guys. Both audiences and directors are more willing... to allow people to stretch. In movies, you do one thing, and then that's their reference.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Bad
  • Movies

• When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • World
  • God
  • Question

• it wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it man has oppressed us for a million years but he goes on steadily cutting the ground from under his own feet making deserts deserts deserts

  

  Don Marquis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Earth

• The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.

  

  Jerry Gillies

• It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.

  

  Lauren Beukes
  • World
  • Real
  • Justice

• The good romances are as good as anything.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Good
  • Anything
  • Romances

• Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Silly