Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?

Jonathan Safran Foer

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• Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Alone

• When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Great
  • American
  • War

• I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.

  

  Larry King
  • Time
  • Wish
  • Jealous

• I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Father
  • Own
  • My Own

• I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • Women
  • Small
  • Literacy

• Only amazing designers think of the truly new.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Think
  • Amazing
  • New

• The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Greek

• I don't have time for easy. Tennis is just hard.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Time
  • Easy
  • Tennis

• Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Development
  • Class
  • West

• When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Money
  • Never
  • Independent

• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Singer
  • Got

• The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • World
  • Great
  • Guy

• Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Time
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Training
  • Psychology
  • Skills

• I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Nothing
  • Misunderstood

• It's wrong to say that there is no performance in a glamorous role. Even a glam role takes in a lot of effort. There is a fine line between being glamorous and being vulgar; you have to feel comfortable in what you wear.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Effort
  • Feel
  • Performance

• When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Me
  • Support
  • More

• How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! - I will venture to say, will be written!

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Love
  • Say
  • Venture

• Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in all of human life.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Genius
  • Foundation
  • Human Life

• It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details.

  

  Jorge Paulo Lemann
  • Small
  • Effort

• What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.

  

  Anne Carson
  • World
  • Words
  • Small

• 'Men die of the diseases which they have studied most,' remarked the surgeon, snipping off the end of a cigar with all his professional neatness and finish. 'It's as if the morbid condition was an evil creature which, when it found itself closely hunted, flew at the throat of its pursuer. If you worry the microbes too much they may worry you. I've seen cases of it, and not necessarily in microbic diseases either. There was, of course, the well-known instance of Liston and the aneurism; and a dozen others that I could mention.'

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Men
  • Die
  • Diseases

• I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • Faith
  • Religious

• Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer