George Saunders Quotes

When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. What I want is to have the reader come out just 6 percent more awake to the world.

George Saunders

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 2, 1958

Topics

LoveWorldStoryShortYouWant

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

Jim Henson

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I think it tends to be overused and can be a little bit gimmicky. A lot of people are using 3-D now because they feel have they have to... that will come and go and the pictures that deserve to be in 3-D will continue to be. When it's done bad, it can make you carsick.

Joe Johnston

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Addepar not only helps improve private wealth management workflows so that advisors can do a better job at what they currently do, but it also helps build a data-driven and integrated view on top of the many important financial decisions within a client portfolio.

Joe Lonsdale

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I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

Sonia Sotomayor

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As a bald man who happens to play golf, or a golfer who happens to be bald, I'll never know the pleasures of a golf visor.

Steve Rushin

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I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.

Tom Sizemore

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Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

Roddy Doyle

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The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

Rudolf Arnheim

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When our band took off, we were all in this microcosm of a hurricane or whatever it was. It was a crazy, crazy dream come true with nightmares floating around it, and all sorts of stuff was happening, and my Crohn's was happening.

Mike McCready

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I always think about making a CD you can hear in your car, your house party, with wonderful energy for all.

Little Louie Vega

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As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don't line up with God's Word, you'll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

Joyce Meyer

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I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

Denis Leary

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