Susan Orlean Quotes

I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.

Susan Orlean

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WinterSnowChildMeSmallDeep

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.

John Bruton

AmericanCountryInvestmentThree

To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives: the fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.

John Burroughs

TreeMeNothingTopBottomCells

We've never slammed people over the head or made 'The Flash' an after-school special. With us, it's always been presenting the world in which we live. The world in which we live, men and women work together; different races work together, and you have gay friends, and people have relationships. We just try to show that.

Andrew Kreisberg

WorkWomenLiveMenTogetherPeople

My mom was extremely supportive of me, but it could err on the side of... I mean, there's supportive, and then there's just full-on over-hovering.

Megan Mullally

MeMomMeanSideJustSupportive

L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit.

Simon Baker

LiveBetterPlaceBetter PlaceThan

I say to the Taliban: surrender the terrorists; or surrender power. It's your choice.

Tony Blair

PowerChoiceSurrenderSayYour

You know those hard days you go home where you've been worked to the bone and you just want to do nothing? In fight prep, every day is that day.

Robert Whittaker

HomeDayFightYouEvery DayKnow

Being productive at work is rewarding, and feeling supported, challenged, and appreciated allows us to be our most efficient selves.

Julia Hartz

WorkFeelingAppreciatedBeingUs

Alcohol is the cause of all my problems.

Jayson Williams

AlcoholProblemsCause

When I came to University of California, San Francisco to work on infectious disease, I looked around to different options, and malaria was particularly interesting and fascinating to me. It's amazing that after 100 years of study of this little parasite, we've not been able to effectively control it.

Joseph DeRisi

WorkAmazingMeControlInteresting

Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.

Jason Reitman

FeelFriendsYouConnectedTalkGot

I don't like a lot of monitors on stage. I like the real raw sound of the open piano.

Dianne Reeves

SoundRealOpenStagePianoRaw

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