Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 21, 1977

Topics

ChildrenAnimalMeEatingKindOnly

The creative processes are so mysterious.

Jimmy Webb

CreativeMysteriousProcesses

Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.

Jesse Ventura

HealthInsuranceCitizenShould

I'm becoming more and more confident and am falling more and more in love with the whole world of comedy, and I think that's something that I really want to explore a lot more.

Megan Park

LoveWorldThinkConfidentComedy

At the request of the special counsel, Mr. Rove will not discuss the substance of his testimony.

Robert Luskin

SpecialWillCounselRequestHisMr

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America's financial traits.

Robert Kiyosaki

FinancialAmericaNeighborsMany

I'm that type of person that if I feel like I'm doing the same thing in life, then I'm stuck. Always gotta be moving and doing something different.

Trevor Jackson

LifeMovingFeelDoingPersonSame

Everything is so fast, and everybody wants to be stars and stuff, they're taking the music out of the schools and kids wanting to play instruments, that whole piece of it is gone. Nobody is taking responsibility to push these kids to want to do it. Nobody's reaching their hand out to it, and it's pretty sad.

Liv Warfield

StarsMusicSadResponsibilityPush

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

Jean de la Bruyere

ManKingAtheistWouldWhoWere

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

Jonny Lang

InfluenceThinkWonderBluesMore

I have always been attracted to clothes designed by women. Coco Chanel, Vionnet, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan. They have a little more - how do I put it? - understanding.

Diane von Furstenberg

WomenUnderstandingClothesMoreHow

With 'The Librarians,' we want to be a smart, fun, crazy, genre show, but we also want to be something that people of all ages can watch and enjoy. That, to me, does seem to be increasingly harder to find.

Dean Devlin

SmartFunPeopleMeCrazyEnjoy

When it comes to power as it functions between humans, it all comes down to desire. If you know what someone wants, you can control them. It is as simple as that. And the reverse is also true: If you have control over your own desires, no one will ever own you. As humans, we are plagued with desire - it consumes us, it fuels us, it destroys us.

Courtney A. Kemp

PowerSimpleControlSomeoneYou

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