Jonathan Franzen Quotes

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.

Jonathan Franzen

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BeginningWritingBookReadingEnjoy

I've, we have in this state, like many other states, we're experiencing an enormous budget deficit that we're trying to grapple with. But we will have progress despite the deficits.

Jennifer Granholm

ProgressBudgetTryingWillLike

One of the things that science fiction gets to do is thought experiments about the human condition that would be impractical or unethical to conduct in real life.

Robert J. Sawyer

LifeScienceThoughtScience Fiction

Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.

Sophie Turner

MeThingsScareIntrigueReally

I'm La Flame at all times. That, at times, can be bad, at times can be good.

Travis Scott

GoodFlameBadTimesLa

I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.

Toni Braxton

LifeHeartRestThoughtMy Life

Guys, particularly in the West, go to the gym and train for hours and hours to pick up something that is heavier than them. Why would you want to do that?

Robert Carlyle

YouGymTrainGoWantWhy

My experience and research has led me to the regrettable conclusion that our system of mass incarceration functions more like a caste system than a system of crime prevention or control.

Michelle Alexander

ExperienceMeResearchControlCrime

There is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life.

Monica Raymund

LifeFireYourselfNothingLine

Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.

Minnie Pearl

BreakfastMeTalkingTelephoneUp

I grew up in the suburbs north of Atlanta. I had an amazing childhood, and I still go back to my home in Atlanta often.

Devon Werkheiser

HomeChildhoodAmazingBackGoUp

I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called.

Dorothea Dix

TeaTheatreEnvyLookFindCards

I don't make movies that make fun of anything.

Christopher Guest

FunMoviesAnythingMake

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