Lauren Groff Quotes

A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.

Lauren Groff

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • World
  • Today
  • Light

• I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Want

• Artists are like everybody else.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Like
  • Artists
  • Everybody

• You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Up
  • Different
  • Learn

• I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Want
  • Now
  • Everyone

• A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Justice

• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• I am pretty tough as a boss.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Pretty
  • Boss

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Expectations
  • Meet

• I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Never
  • Story

• The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.

  

  Dan Hill
  • American
  • Made
  • Deals

• You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.

  

  D'Angelo
  • People
  • Trying
  • Family

• There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Young
  • Losing
  • Sibling

• I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Long
  • Book
  • Quality

• I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Desire

• I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Home
  • House

• I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Up
  • Very

• So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • World
  • Great
  • Parents

• in general, I feel most comfortable between known quantities.

  

  Pam Houston

• In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Marriage