Joyce Carol Oates Quotes

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

Joyce Carol Oates

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HopeExperienceListeningReading

Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids.

Jim Cantalupo

FamilyGoodExperienceDinnerToys

I love words; I love poetry.

Jessica Steen

LoveWordsPoetryI Love

When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.

John Banville

GoodDreamsMemoriesGreatControl

Bubbles have quite a few things in common, but housing bubbles have a spectacular thing in common, and that is every one of them is considered unique and different.

Jeremy Grantham

UniqueBubblesHousingThingsCommon

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

John Milton

RichTrueModestyCovetousness

The strangest thing I've found is that when I got to space, I felt more comfortable in space that I've ever been on Earth before. I just felt this is my home.

John M. Grunsfeld

HomeSpaceEarthComfortableMore

I grew up in Somerset in southwest England.

Sonoya Mizuno

UpSouthwestEnglandGrew

I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

Shirley Jones

FamilyHomeMeStructureStability

My dad owns a company that lends equipment to industrial projects. I've been obsessed with taking it over since I could talk. I'd follow him and repeat conversations about how many tons of cranes were arriving. He said it was a man's world, so I studied electrical engineering because it was related.

Ruchi Sanghvi

ManWorldEngineeringSaidTalkHim

You used to be able to identify Sox fans in Yankee Stadium. They sat, slump-shouldered, with the same panicked expectation nervous motorists have looking in the rearview mirror at the 16-wheeler behind them on Interstate 95 near New Haven.

Mike Barnicle

MirrorLookingYouNewNervousFans

If we are going to do big things in our country, we're going to have to think about better ways working across our differences.

Cory Booker

ThinkBetterDifferencesCountryBig

When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions.

Chris Riddell

WorkArtSchoolSearchSometimes

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