Susan Orlean Quotes

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

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• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Knowledge
  • Me
  • Training

• And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • War
  • Socialism

• Biotechnology is a worry. What if they take genetic material from wet noodles and blowfish and splice it into politician chromosomes and create a Clinton administration?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Worry

• Want to play baseball?’” she asked. Shane’s eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. “What?’” “First base,’” she said. “You’re already there.’” “I’m not running the bases.’” “Well, you could at least steal second.’” “Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you’ve gone and ruined it.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Running
  • Eyes

• The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Magic

• I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • People
  • Age
  • Inspired

• The wrong way to step forward in this campaign.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Way
  • Forward
  • Campaign

• Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

  

  John Milton
  • Eye
  • Straight
  • Lawns

• Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Nature
  • Trouble
  • Neighbours

• Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Life
  • Fail
  • Existance

• The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Serious
  • Air
  • Voice

• I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

  

  Stephanie Klein
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Fats

• Health information is just about the number one thing that people go into public libraries and connect to public libraries for. They're also looking for information about things that can make their lives better. It's a great equalizer.

  

  Carla Hayden
  • Information
  • Library
  • Numbers

• I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Giving
  • Point
  • Crush

• Consider why Germany, fighting a war on two fronts, desperate for fuel and materiel of every sort, would bother to load millions of Jews on railroad cars and transport them hundreds, even thousands, of miles to concentration camps. Camps built specifically to house them, where they would be fed, clothed, even tattooed so they could be inventoried...just to kill them.

  

  Edgar Steele
  • War
  • Kill
  • Consider

• I know first-hand the challenges that come with being an on-the-go mom, and I am constantly looking for great products that fit into my busy schedule. I've tried every goop and elixir known to man.

  

  Eva LaRue
  • Challenges
  • Products
  • Schedule

• An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

  

  Susan Orlean
  • Heroic
  • Plain
  • Ordinary Life