Eric Weiner Quotes

Happiness is a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

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• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Courtesy
  • Defence

• I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Look

• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Me

• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Literature

• I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Life
  • Taken

• Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Want
  • Holocaust
  • Last

• With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Writing
  • Want

• In the early '90s, it was grunge; everybody was fully clothed. Alanis Morissette was one of the biggest artists in the world, never wore makeup, wearing Doc Marten boots, and then the Spice Girls turn up, and suddenly it all looks a bit burlesque; suddenly they're the biggest band in the world.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • World
  • Band

• I regret all of my books.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Books
  • Regret

• New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Work
  • Myself
  • New York

• It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • Washington
  • Teeth
  • Edge

• I think it's time that we all be there for the children, to learn from the ones who came before us, and to teach our sons and daughters to have respect for themselves.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Time
  • Children
  • Respect

• Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Power
  • Society
  • Control

• Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Enemy
  • Thoughtful

• A seamlessly told and scrupulously detailed history of the Hartsoe clan of Haw County, North Carolina, Love and Lament is that rare novel that brings the gritty, rural past to vivid life. I could very nearly smell the moonshine (the moonshiners too!). Pass a few hours with Mary Bet Hartsoe and family. You won't regret it.

  

  T. R. Pearson
  • Life
  • Family
  • History

• I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Way
  • Water
  • Machine

• My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Observation

• When you live in the shadow of a big tree, you have to run twice as fast to get into the sunlight.

  

  Leonard Lauder
  • Live
  • Tree
  • Shadow

• Happiness is a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Happiness
  • Shadow
  • Ghost