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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 16, 1938

Topics

Car Silence Yourself Space Writing

I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Life Me Everyday Write Everyday Life

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

Stephen Hawking

Work Time End Data Now Will

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

Sid Caesar

Laughter People Me Thank You You Up

You can't always worry about offending people.

Mary Beard

People Worry You Always About

Computer vision and machine learning have really started to take off, but for most people, the whole idea of what is a computer seeing when it's looking at an image is relatively obscure.

Mike Krieger

Learning Vision People Looking Image

I've never stopped learning.

Mick Taylor

Learning Never Stopped

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

Lou Rawls

Time Soul Space Learn Enough Long

Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Daily Morning Design Artist Single

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Joseph Joubert

Vision Words Glass Obscure Like Aid

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

Chuck Hagel

Peace People Gun End Through Come

Figure out what questions you'd ask to see if you were happy with your life. Then wake up every day and live intentionally, so you're happy with the answers at the end.

Brendon Burchard

Life Live Day Happy Wake Up End

At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.

Armstrong Williams

Day World End Of The Day End Better