Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I think the Lord gives us everything we can handle, nothing more.

Joe Nichols

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I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.

John Sayles

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If you are not living in the same area when you are looking for property, it is a nightmare because you come down for a day or two, have appointments to see places, and have to be able to make instant decisions before flying off to St. Louis or somewhere.

Stephen Hough

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I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

Stephen Hawking

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That was part of coaching: to teach your receivers how to get free.

Sid Gillman

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People tell me all the time that my 15 minutes are up.

Tomi Lahren

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There are more active volcanoes beneath the sea than on land by two orders of magnitude.

Robert Ballard

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My heart is in South Africa, through my mum. My mum being from here, me spending a lot of time here as well, I feel most connected to this part of the world.

Roger Federer

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Directors say that you should get actors before they are recognized. They will be a pain or have an opinion.

Dianne Wiest

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The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide.

Clive Barker

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I always wondered, like, you know how you go to the family barbecue, and your uncle is that funny guy that you laugh at because he's family? That's how I felt with 'Fighter and the Kid.' People would laugh at my stuff, but it was always tough for me to tell. I just needed to see if there was something going on.

Brendan Schaub

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There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

William Kingdon Clifford

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