Lauren Groff Quotes

The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.

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• The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Life
  • Change
  • Master

• Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • House
  • Film

• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Way
  • Know
  • Retire

• We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Israel
  • Dealing
  • Treachery

• I'm not religious, so theres no church on Sunday.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Church
  • Religious
  • Sunday

• Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Book
  • Day
  • Back

• Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • World
  • Work
  • Problems

• I don't ever want to feel complacent.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Complacent

• At the end of the day, I got to live my life for my family, for my children, and I'm going to do what's best for them.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she'll care for me.

  

  Usher
  • Way
  • Woman
  • Care

• When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Late

• Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you, his excellency Bertie Ahern (/ei/hern), the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ireland

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • High

• My definition of a scientist is that you can complete the following sentence: ‘he or she has shown that…’,'

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • She

• Mr Premier, Sir. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

  

  Aravind Adiga
  • English

• Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Character

• Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Country
  • War
  • Control

• Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • People
  • Music
  • Impossible

• Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Reason
  • Fool

• The Way to ſee by Faith is to ſhut the Eye of Reaſon: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Faith
  • Morning

• It was a good chance for me to write lyrics that I was going to sing, I’ve always written lyrics for other people to sing. I thought. I’m going to write an album here, but i’m not going to write stuff that other people are gonna sing, because that would be pointless.

  

  Nick Hodgson
  • Write
  • Lyrics
  • Sing

• The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.

  

  Lauren Groff