Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExperienceWordsOrganizingComfort

My family was perfect.

Jim Rash

FamilyPerfect

I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people.

John Corbett

PeopleMeColdReadingYearYou

I'm pretty sensitive. My feelings get hurt a lot easier than people think, but I try take it all with grain of salt. For a relationship, I want someone who is really secure, confident and fulfilled, not tripping with what I do.

Maxwell

RelationshipPeopleThinkHurtSalt

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Merle Shain

Ten YearsMoreDaysContentmentTen

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Steven Pinker

MusicArtPoetryMindPainting

Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.

Simon Mainwaring

TechnologyBecomeSocialMustDeeply

You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.

Jordan Peele

BlackYouWantNeverRoomGuy

I need and want to see capable women. I don't like to see them weep all the time.

Debra Granik

WomenTimeWantNeedCapableSee

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

Christopher Reeve

GameThinkYouPlayHandDealt

The right costume determines the character, helps the actor feel who he is, and serves the story.

Colleen Atwood

CharacterStoryFeelActorRightHe

I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.

Brian Austin Green

HistoryRestGoMoviesPilotHills

I've been doing Pilates since 1974, I lift weights, I power walk every day and I run backwards. That's sometimes a little hard when you're not on your home turf, because you've got to find a place where there are no bumps in the way - or people.

Britt Ekland

HomePowerWalkDayPeopleDoing

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