Lorrie Moore Quotes

I grew up with 'Life' magazine on the coffee table, Life cereal on the breakfast table, and the game of Life on the card table. People were just so happy to be alive, I guess.

Lorrie Moore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 13, 1957

Topics

LifeCoffeeHappyPeopleBreakfast

I thought I was funny as a kid.

Jo Brand

FunnyThoughtKid

I'm always eating. I eat every three hours.

Jessica St. Clair

EatingThreeAlwaysEatHoursEvery

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

John F. Kennedy

MeSayingBadFindOfficeThings

Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.

John Cena

WorkMeShowing UpYouUpDig

I grew up in a dysfunctional family.

Melissa Gilbert

FamilyUpDysfunctionalGrew

The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.

Tom Coburn

FoodGovernmentStupidityCommittee

I think I will always have a connection to young people, to try to bring their voices to the polls, bring their voices wherever they can make a difference.

Russell Simmons

PeopleThinkMake A DifferenceYoung

If you do not have the team behind you, then you can't do things on your own. It all depends on the team.

Diego Costa

TeamYouOwnThingsBehindYour

I feel very, very lucky to have come from the family I did. We have our dysfunctions and our problems, just like any family. But my parents are extremely loving people.

Annette Bening

FamilyParentsPeopleProblemsFeel

I'm a portrait photographer that's used to shooting celebrities, and I usually need time and all kinds of lights and a studio to set up my shots.

Platon

TimePortraitLightsPhotographerUp

I'm inclined to think that, because it's such an awful life, that politicians do go into it for the best reasons. I mean, some may love the sound of their own voice. But it's such a wearying life, you've got to be impelled by some desire to leave the world a better place than when you came into it.

Richard Eyre

LifeLoveBestWorldThinkBetter

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has to be a plausible poem in English.

Marilyn Hacker

ChallengeFindFirstEnglishPoem

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