Stewart O'Nan Quotes

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?

Stewart O'Nan

• Sin
• Acceptance
• Romance
• Familiar
• Emptiness

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• I think people appreciate honesty.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Honesty

• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Truth
  • Day

• I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Inspiration
  • Complexity
  • Humour

• I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Best
  • Thought
  • Paradise

• I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Up
  • Live
  • Money

• Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Opportunity
  • Leadership

• During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Up
  • War
  • Problem

• I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Believe
  • Lost
  • Stop

• I am not that big a method actor.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Actor
  • Method

• And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtainThrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sad
  • Purple

• There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Why
  • Criticism

• As a matter of principle, Republicans do not believe in federal price controls.

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • Believe

• Competition is good for consumers. It provides more choices at better prices.

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Competition

• I used to work in a hospital, in a laboratory doing phlebotomy. I was a vampire.

  

  John Edward
  • Work
  • Vampire

• Father, Father Abraham,To-day look on us from above;On us, the offspring of thy faith,The children of thy Christ-like love.

  

  James Weldon Johnson
  • Children
  • Father
  • Faith

• We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.

  

  Eric Morecambe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Brother

• You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Forever
  • Stupid
  • Knows

• The supreme form of cursedness is for the Lord to turn His back on you and bring judgment on you.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Lord
  • Judgment
  • Supreme

• The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

  

  E. B. White
  • Power
  • Age
  • Man

• People age even when you're not looking.

  

  R. K. Milholland
  • People
  • Age

• We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection.

  

  Sandra Oh
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Actors

• Obviously, in this day and age, with the TV shows, there are some really interesting ones. I'm not that interested in going and doing a network show, but like everybody else, trying to find something good.

  

  Scott Speedman
  • Trying
  • Age
  • Interesting

• Fashion is a declaration of your own freedom.

  

  Anna Dello Russo
  • Freedom
  • Fashion
  • Declaration

• The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?

  

  Stewart O'Nan
  • Sin
  • Acceptance
  • Romance