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
  • Running
  • Me
  • 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

• 'It is no hardship whatever,' said Aillas. 'You have never strained at the deed. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and suddenly you find the idea incredible. Do you not sense a taint of unreality?'

  

  Jack Vance

• They could hardly believe it, the retreating arses of all that Mameluke or Turkish cavalry, heathen anyway, crying heathen words as they cantered off in gunsnioke and dust-clouds, dropping spears and jewels and good Birmingham pistols. And soon it was water water water, a world of blessed water, the muddy stinking welcoming mother Nile near Rahmaniya.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• 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

• Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all.

  

  Dominic West
  • She
  • Wife

• 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

• Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

  

  Kenny Loggins
  • Different
  • Women
  • Beginning

• The activism of marginalized people often comes with visibility and being heard. Which can lead people to believe that recognition and awareness is the actual end point. And it is not.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • People
  • Believe

• I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

  

  Marvin Olasky

• 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

• The heads of these divisions, like barons in a feudal system weakened at the top by mutual suspicion and jealousy between king and prince, were constantly at odds if not at war...For the most part the barons were knowledgeable people performing in a way the times had completely outdated, a fact of which they were quite unaware.

  

  Dean Acheson
  • People
  • War
  • King

• The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Earth
  • Housekeeper
  • Dusting

• They said if I could deal with the pain, I should play. So, I did, and for some reason, I started hitting. It was a weird thing. I don't know if it was because I couldn't do too much, and I was just trying to stay up through the middle and not hurt myself.

  

  Freddie Freeman
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Pain

• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Change
  • Democracy
  • Dirty

• 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