Jane Smiley Quotes

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

Jane Smiley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 26, 1949

Topics

LoveMarriageRelationshipMyself

The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.

Jhumpa Lahiri

IdentityQuestionsMoreAudience

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

John Mayer

FailureI AmBecomeGuitaristWho

We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual.

Robert J. Shiller

SpiritualEconomicsEngineeringJudge

Wars of any magnitude release powerful social and economic forces which can change the whole face of the world.

Robert Kennedy

ChangeWorldFacePowerfulRelease

Boxing's not going to retire me; I'll retire from boxing. That's where most people make mistakes. They normally stay in the game a bit too long.

Amir Khan

MistakesPeopleMeGameLongBoxing

My focus has to be on my career.

Lizzie Armitstead

FocusCareer

There are girls who find the giant beard 'gross' and 'creepy.' I know because they tell me.

Jason Mantzoukas

MeBeardFindKnowTellBecause

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point?

Courteney Cox

FriendTimeLonelyFriendsYouCall

I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.

Allison Tolman

PeopleThreeYearsFirmTenTiny

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

William Gurnall

WorkWalkDaySleepNightHeaven

The body needs to rest. It needs a lot less exercise than you think.

Sylvester Stallone

RestThinkExerciseYouBodyNeeds

I went to pick my son up from school and walked him back and was in the house preparing dinner, and he came in the house and gave me this flower of chrysanthemum that was full of ants. And he went back out to play and ran out into the street and got hit by a car. The car happened to be driven by a LAPD detective.

Susan Burton

FlowerCarSonSchoolMeDinner

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