Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveSometimesDogsEatCowsHorses

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

Jo Brand

DoingUpStandingBecauseLike

Science class is traditionally taught as science history class - you learn all these facts that someone else discovered, which you need to know, but that's not really an inspiring way to learn science.

Megan Smith

ScienceHistoryFactsLearnSomeone

Competition's always good, but the biggest thing I like about coach Saban is that he gives everybody the opportunity to play.

Tua Tagovailoa

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We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.

Mike Quade

QualityDayEffortBetterPlayGive

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Jules Renard

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What one person might see as violent, someone else may see as beautiful. Maybe even art.

Jon Glaser

BeautifulArtSomeonePersonSee

People have posted my personal information on the Internet. This has resulted in additional emails, calls, and threats. My family and I were forced to move out of our home.

Christine Blasey Ford

FamilyHomePeopleInternetPersonal

I don't care about the gold records and all of that stuff. I care about what we do onstage, and the joy that we bring to people.

Clarence Clemons

JoyPeopleGoldCareBringStuff

I need to be able to rock out.

Bryan Adams

RockNeedOutAble

The idea that fiction can capture the stories that fall through the cracks of history informed 'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,' which progresses across the two Chechen Wars of the 1990s and early 2000s.

Anthony Marra

HistoryFallEarlyCaptureFiction

Despite my express wish, I was not left in Chicago, but taken to Paris to live, and I did not see my father for many years. But we never stopped loving each other, and in 1940 he died in my arms in Hollywood, where he had come to be near me at the end.

Preston Sturges

FatherLiveMeEndWishLoving

My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets.

Peter Eisenman

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