George Saunders Quotes

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

George Saunders

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeMeSocietyThinkMy LifeDone

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

Jim Mattis

PeopleReadingYouThroughStay

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.'

Max Brooks

TeacherRememberYouSayWantShe

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce

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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce

NatureFearDaughterHopeIgnorance

I'm always sticking up for other people.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

PeopleAlwaysUpOtherSticking

Since the web is totally worldwide, we need a set of behavioural rules, laws they are commonly called, that are accepted worldwide. There is a big difference as to how things are treated in the U.S. and Europe and Asia.

Robert Cailliau

RulesNeedDifferenceEuropeBig

We decided to speak publicly about suicide because we wanted to make a difference in other people's lives.

Luke Richardson

PeopleSpeakMake A DifferenceMake

My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

Dolly Parton

AloneDayMeWritingSongNails

My life takes me all over the world, and I know how hard that can be on a relationship.

Drew Barrymore

LifeRelationshipMeWorldMy Life

I used to get butterflies when I'd see big dudes. I don't get butterflies no more.

Deandre Ayton

MoreSeeBigUsedGetButterflies

For me, the more time you can take and the more care you can take with songs, the better off you're going to be.

Chris Stapleton

TimeMeCareBetterYouMore

John Cena is like the 2010 version of Bret Hart. Fans see him as a real decent, upstanding human being.

Bret Hart

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