Susan Orlean Quotes

Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.

Susan Orlean

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WinterRoadsBlackGritWhiteBig

Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

Andrew Bird

WordsI CanSayDeceptionHonest

I was raised to believe that you're safe in God's hands. But I don't feel safe with myself.

Megan Fox

GodMyselfBelieveFeelHandsYou

I'm a consistent little person.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

PersonLittleConsistent

We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount of scholarship in the last 30 years about education in the Hellenistic world and women in the Hellenistic world. We now know how an upper-class woman was educated in her day.

Stacy Schiff

EducationWomenGreatDayWomanNow

I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life... whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

LifeGodI AmMeYouDown

If we can ascertain and show to our people that the West is ready to deal with Iran on the basis of mutual respect and mutual interests and equal footing, then it will have an impact on almost every aspect of Iran's foreign policy behavior - and some aspects of Iran's domestic policy.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

RespectPeopleImpactBehaviorReady

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.

Coretta Scott King

KingPeopleThinkUnderstandBegin

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

Bryan Adams

HeartTrustEverythingGutHead

I simply loathe the crude 1960s distinctions between commerce and art. For me, Warhol and pop obliterated all of those separations - that was the whole point of the Brillo Boxes and Campbell's Soup Cans. And believe it or not, in 2009, moronic journalists are still saying to me, 'Your work is so commercial.'

Peter Marino

WorkArtMeSoupSayingBelieve

I think television defeats ventriloquism.

Paul Winchell

ThinkTelevisionI ThinkDefeats

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Thomas Merton

DarknessSpiritualFallKnowTrue

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

Tim O'Reilly

TimeThinkBecomeAlwaysOverMost

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