Eula Biss Quotes

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.

Eula Biss

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FatherMotherPoetryMemoryMeHer

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

Anita Shreve

LoveAloneFeelAliveWorkingFact

In a marriage, every fight is the same fight, over and over again, in different forms.

Jeff Bridges

MarriageFightSameOverDifferent

I like to say time is a luxury.

Travis Kalanick

TimeLuxurySayLike

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Robert Fripp

LifeMy LifeExerciseProfessional

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

Tom Hanks

WorldUpPopulationMakePercent

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

LifeLiveManHumanHuman LifePoet

I'm a pessimist by nature, so it's always the worst things that come to mind first whenever you make a decision or have a decision to make.

Domhnall Gleeson

NatureDecisionMindYouWorstCome

If you want to get the most out of your men, give them a break! Don't make them work completely in the dark. If you do, they won't do a bit more than they have to. But if they comprehend, they'll work like mad.

Chesty Puller

WorkLeadershipMenYouDarkMad

One of the things that drives me crazy as a professional woman is you'll have bought a suit, and you get home and realize you don't have a shirt to wear with it.

Christine Quinn

HomeWomanMeCrazyYouRealize

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

Pierre Bourdieu

WorkEducationCultureHobbiesPoint

I can remember picking up weighty tomes on the history of science and the history of philosophy and reading those when I was small.

Peter Ackroyd

ScienceHistorySmallReadingI Can

The acting thing is the side benefit of becoming a little bit well known with my music.

Tyler Hilton

MusicActingLittleSideWellKnown

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