Audrey Niffenegger Quotes

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

Audrey Niffenegger

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• I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Great
  • Attitude
  • Fat

• If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Growing
  • Car
  • Size

• I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.

  

  Halsey
  • Me
  • Running
  • City

• The future of the television industry is changing at an unstoppable rate, and it is exciting to share my experience and thoughts on how this will change the value of content in the digital space.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Change

• I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Star

• My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Alone
  • Struggle
  • Leaving

• I don't know why I ever succumbed to any of it... but I liked the rush of going under. It's such a high-it's like dying. I die, but then I come out prettier.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Why
  • High
  • Die

• Postquam leges bello siluere coactaepellimur e patriis laribus patimurque volentesexilium.

  

  Lucan

• If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

  

  Allan Houston

• The A-PAC region is so important, mainly because it is growing much faster than the global average.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Important
  • Growing

• We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.

  

  Anthony Holden
  • Long
  • Done
  • Political

• There's sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn't matter if it's Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That's just as big of a tragedy for me.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • People
  • Time
  • Positive

• When it comes to the assignment of blame, the CIA has by and large been a luckless organization.

  

  Charles McCarry
  • Organization

• When my parents got divorced, I wanted to spend my time laying in the garage listening to the washer and dryer. Loud, immersive, changing. It was music to me.

  

  Brian Reitzell
  • Time
  • Music
  • Parents

• I remember I was in grade school, the fourth grade, in a free reading period in the library. Someone in my class found a copy of the Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in America, and my dad's name was on it.

  

  Jamie Johnson
  • People
  • School
  • Remember

• If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you're going to take the resource.

  

  Derrick Jensen

• I love the chance to train with someone like Mark Twight.

  

  Lena Headey

• I find it insane to say, "Work hard," when the harder you work, the more you pay in taxes... Crazy.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Taxes
  • Work Hard

• Bangalore needs a honest, passionate and hard-working MP, and I will be that MP.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Honest
  • Will
  • Passionate

• What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Why
  • Power

• My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

  

  Dick York
  • Long
  • Pain
  • Waves

• Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Pain
  • Force
  • Attain

• The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

  

  Audrey Niffenegger
  • Pain
  • Jump
  • Expect