Audrey Niffenegger Quotes

We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

Audrey Niffenegger

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• If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Movie
  • You

• Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Home
  • Fun

• For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Culture

• Focus on remedies, not faults.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Focus
  • Faults
  • Remedies

• Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Work
  • Eye
  • Better

• As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Alone

• In Chicago, they die for their teams.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Die
  • Chicago
  • Teams

• To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Me

• Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Key
  • Obesity
  • Contradictory

• I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Love
  • She
  • Mother

• Gandalf's a good guy, and it's a good part. He says the right things, he believes the right things. An actor can have fun with it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Guy

• I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Universe

• If you make a decision to fight for future of your own country you have to consider all the consequences.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Future
  • Decision

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • See
  • Genius
  • Seed

• Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that's what makes him Newt Gingrich.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • Party
  • Politics

• I have always been a bit of an introvert. In fact, my dad used to force me to meet people so that my interpersonal skills improve. As an individual, I was happiest when left alone.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • People
  • Dad
  • Alone

• Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.

  

  Alcuin
  • World
  • Heart
  • Art

• Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Joy
  • Expression
  • Generosity

• Generally, I just think there is a real lacking in men knowing how to hit on women.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Men
  • Women
  • Real

• We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

  

  Audrey Niffenegger
  • Joy
  • Moment
  • Laugh