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Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother.

Joyce Carol Oates

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Past Parents Think Grandmother

It's not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn't sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Jocko Willink

Morning Day Baseball Fun Song You

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

John Betjeman

Laughter Me World Cold Lose Harvest

When I'm not working, I don't wear a lot of makeup. When I do, I like to accentuate my eyes and wear natural colors. I am also mindful of the proper way to apply concealer.

Jessica White

Eyes I Am Colors Makeup Way Wear

With success comes responsibility of playing your part, to do what you can to help not only those that helped you get to where you're at, but the future of who's going to be playing a part of your business and everything you do in your entire career.

Rob Dyrdek

Success Future Business Help You

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

Mary Augusta Ward

School Country Now First Modern

As soon as I started reading, I found myself drawn to fictional character's homes as much as I was to the characters themselves.

Mary Kay Andrews

Character Myself Reading Started

Founding a successful startup is no different than forming a rock band.

Jay Samit

Rock Band Successful Different Than

I'm always amazed by people who blog all the time and tweet all the time, and still get things done. I don't know how they do it.

Jarvis Cocker

Time People Know Done Always Things

It's no good singing if you just want to be a pop star; you've got to work at it and do it for the love for it, not because you think it will make you famous.

Bonnie Tyler

Work Love Good Singing Think You

The Obama administration notoriously refuses to acknowledge that Islamists commit Islamist terror, so it logically follows that a Christian victim of Islamist violence should not address the issue lest it challenge accepted political orthodoxy.

Pete Hoekstra

Challenge Political Christian Victim

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

Nicolas Berggruen

I Am Energy You Things Away Takes

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.

Muhammad Ali

Life Mistakes Better Way Lived Made