Elizabeth Berg Quotes

I like my house to feel like a place where I can just lie back and say, 'Ahhhhh, I'm home.'

Elizabeth Berg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 2, 1948

Topics

HomeLieFeelBackHouseI Can

There is always a gap between what candidates say in the heat of the campaign, when they are not constrained by the realities of governance, and how they act after being sworn into office.

Anand Giridharadas

SayHeatOfficeAlwaysActBeing

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

Stephen Curry

GreatSacrificeNightCarePlayTry

Competition can never be eliminated from this industry. There is nothing wrong with it. It keeps you on your toes, making you work harder.

Sridevi

WorkCompetitionYouWrongNothing

If you read a story with an 'I' or a 'he' or a 'she,' you're in familiar territory - but 'we' is mostly unexplored. I think of 'we' as an adventure.

Steven Millhauser

AdventureStoryThinkYouSheHe

Most of the songs I write are full of power, and I'm suspecting it may come from my love for grotesque Renaissance art and the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sigrid

LovePowerArtSongWriteMay

I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.

Roy Blount, Jr.

MoneyWordsSchoolCollegeLanguage

Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend all barriers of nationality. It should straddle all faiths, too.

Martin Rees

ScienceCultureBarriersSameChina

I was a little bit chubby when I was a kid.

Dexter Scott King

KidLittleChubbyLittle BitBit

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

Clifton Fadiman

MindYourFleshInterestedRather

I get a lot of letters from women who insist that 'Fight Club' is not just a guy thing. They insist that women have the same rage and need the same outlet.

Chuck Palahniuk

WomenFightLettersNeedClubRage

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

Broderick Crawford

FatherMotherPerfectAlwaysEven

I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature.

Alice Walker

NatureLoveLivePeopleThinkKnow

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