Susan Orlean Quotes
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
Quotes to Explore
-
I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
-
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
-
One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
-
With a project like 'The 5th Wave,' you do something you would never do in your normal life; I would never have had S.W.A.T. training or boot camp, and there's something really cool about learning stuff like that that's really fun about our job.
-
I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
-
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
-
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
-
What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
-
I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
-
I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
-
There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.
-
Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently.
-
Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
-
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
-
I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.
-
When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
-
I love to be surrounded by nature.
-
Everything that I have is natural – braid, nails – I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.
-
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
-
I'm not a mean comic, I don't want to turn anybody off - I just want to give a point of view or my take on things that everyone can laugh at.
-
It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.
-
My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.
-
I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.
-
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
