Audrey Niffenegger Quotes

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

Audrey Niffenegger

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• I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• I will say I am the sum of my books.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Books
  • Sum

• A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Moon
  • Solar

• I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Idea

• In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn't have a unique perspective.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Beginning
  • Unique
  • Perspective

• Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Acting
  • Strange
  • Very

• Investing in people is the single most important thing in the knowledge economy. Traditionally, wealth was defined by land and natural resources. Today the most important resources is between our ears.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Important
  • Today

• It is often better for a person to recognize a sin than to do a good deed. Recognizing a sin makes a person humble. Doing a good deed often can feed a person’s pride.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Good
  • Pride
  • Humble

• There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.

  

  Duke Ellington
  • Good
  • Music

• I was aware that the loosening of mortgage credit terms for subprime borrowers increased financial risk. But I believed then, as now, that the benefits of broadened home ownership are worth the risk.

  

  Alan Greenspan
  • Home
  • Risk
  • Financial

• 'Blood sweat and tears homie I'm made of it'

  

  Kid Cudi
  • Tears

• If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

  

  Lewis Hine
  • Words

• The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

  

  Belle Boyd

• You get married and have kids, and you get sick of having the government take your money and tell you what to do. I'm just a conservative guy.

  

  Jim Jordan
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Guy

• I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

  

  Don DeLillo

• I hate bands that hang around, like, 10 years too long - they're like the drunk at a party you can't get rid of.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Hate
  • Bands
  • Hang Around

• It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.

  

  Jim Henson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Trying

• I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • Life
  • She
  • Movie

• I haven't grown since I was 13, and every girl cast opposite me isn't allowed to wear heels on camera, for fear that I would look minuscule. In all of the casting calls for my best friends on every project, it says in big, bold, red letters: 'Please no high heels.' It's a little embarrassing.

  

  Dove Cameron
  • Friends
  • High
  • Girl

• I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Imagination
  • Littles
  • Topics

• I've learned from experience you just never know what happens in life.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Life
  • Experience

• Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

  

  Audrey Niffenegger
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Lose