Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PowerFarmMoreReasonIndustry

In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each lavatory I happen to have occupied. When people drop paper on the ground, and everything like that, I pick it up, put it in the lavatory, and make that room look nice.

Joanna Lumley

PeopleLookingLookPlaceNiceRoom

All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.

Andre Balazs

GoodHomePeopleLeadThingsHotels

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

Andy Serkis

FamilyJusticePeopleStrongAlways

America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity.

Stanley Hauerwas

GreatAmericaFirstAlwaysEurope

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

WinHonorCheatingFailWouldEven

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

Tom Hanks

RomanticLookingWishYouLook

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

Rita Coolidge

ThinkSingerBecauseCabaretWritten

When you lose everything, and I mean everything, you sit there in this empty room in the dark, and the only person who can get you out is you.

Mickey Rourke

YouLoseDarkPersonMeanEmpty

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

Moby

MyselfStrangeMoreOldDrumBuying

My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychologist. My mother is Jewish, so I grew up in a mixed background. But the common denominator was certainly music, and that was sort of emphasized in my household as music being sort of the spiritual force.

Joshua Bell

FatherMotherMusicManSpiritual

Everybody who labels themselves a 'nerd' isn't some giant person locked in a cubbyhole who's never seen the opposite sex. Especially with the way the Internet is now, I think that definition is getting a little more diffuse.

Joss Whedon

ThinkInternetSexPersonWayNever

Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.

Joni Eareckson Tada

EyesTimeDaySleepWake UpGo

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