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

• The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.

  

  John Desmond Bernal
  • Mind
  • Simple
  • Sex

• Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Men
  • Women
  • Comfortable

• I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Happy

• I always thought of him [Jack Kennedy] as a prince, with a charmed life. He was a guy who was sick and in horrendous pain all the time - who would say, "I wish I had a few good days."

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Art
  • Way
  • Hard

• 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