Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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Moving ForwardMovingForwardYouGo

On vacation in Indonesia, I ran out of skin-colored zinc, so I used green, and locals called me Hulk.

Jesse Spencer

VacationMeGreenOutUsedHulk

The body and dendrites of a nerve cell are specialized for the reception and integration of information which is conveyed as impulses that are fired from other nerve cells along their axons.

John Eccles

InformationBodyIntegrationFired

Ten million 16-year-old girls would sell their right arm to live the life that I've had.

Su-chin Pak

LifeLiveRightSellWouldMillion

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s.

Mike McCurry

FaithProgressiveActivismLeft

There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth.

Lucy Powell

GrowthFaithLossLongProsperity

China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.

Jose Rizal

WillSheChinaFortunateHerself

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

Christopher Meloni

FunnyGreatWarMeThinkThought

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

Christina Hoff Sommers

WomenMenThinkWantBecomeHappen

You think you have the most amazing life by having your dreams come true as a musician and marrying the woman of your dreams. But then you add a lil' baby girl... to the mix, and it's like you've never really lived and loved until she was here.

Coy Bowles

LifeDreamsGirlYour DreamsWoman

When you make documentaries or short films, you have to have eyes and ears in the back of your head and on the sides and all around you. I like that in my films.

Bruce Weber

EyesShortYouBackSidesHead

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

William Greider

ValuesDoneWillOthersEveryone

What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.

Philip Yancey

GoodGodGratitudeGood ThingsTreat

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