Antonya Nelson Quotes

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

Antonya Nelson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 6, 1961

Topics

MyselfCuriousPeopleThinkThinking

I grew up singing in a church choir.

John Grant

SingingChurchChoirUpGrew

If you find someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time that is your friend not your enemy.

John Ensign

FriendTimeSomeoneYouFindEnemy

There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.

Andrew Bird

ScienceWordsInterestingLot

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

Matthew Lesko

SocietyTalkingInformationNowBeen

Before the Internet, all most people cared about was Office. And Office was really the only reason anyone wanted Windows machines instead of Macs.

Michael Arrington

PeopleInternetWindowsOfficeOnly

My attempt has been really to, beyond making a record of contemporary life, which is what you inevitably do, is trying to make beautiful books - books that are in some way beautiful, that are models of how to use the language, models of honest feeling, models of care.

John Updike

LifeBeautifulCareLanguageYou

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse de Lamartine

WorldPersonSometimesMissingWhole

Having no work would be terrible.

Amitabh Bachchan

WorkTerribleWouldHavingNo Work

I grew up believing that one person could make a difference. In Indiana, you saw that with basketball. The small town could beat the big town, like in the movie 'Hoosiers.' That is one of the things that attracts me to entrepreneurs.

Mary Meeker

MeBasketballSmallMake A Difference

I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.

Conrad Hall

WouldStillMusicianMaybeSuppose

If everyone's rocking the same cool, hard-to-find fabrics, they might not be as cool and hard to find as you think.

Aquaria

CoolThinkYouFindHardEveryone

Despite my best efforts, word that an American tourist was in town quickly made its way around Grozny. That I had come to Chechnya not for business or NGO work, but to see the sites and meet the people, was notable enough to be broadcast throughout the republic.

Anthony Marra

WorkBusinessBestPeopleAmerican

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