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

• 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

• I hang out with dudes a lot. I can relate to being the guys girl.

  

  Alexis Knapp
  • Girl
  • Guys
  • Relate

• It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Gold
  • Glitter

• You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.

  

  Juan Marichal
  • Zone
  • Belonged
  • Pitchers

• It must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us.

  

  John Calvin
  • Lord
  • Direct
  • Trusting

• For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• Some people are little more than herd animals, flocking together whenever the world becomes uncomfortable … I am not one of those people. If I had a motto, it would probably be Herd thither, me hither.

  

  Erik Naggum
  • People
  • Uncomfortable
  • Herds

• 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