Elizabeth Strout Quotes

I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.'

Elizabeth Strout

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 6, 1956

Topics

LifeLoveDailyComfortSubwayAble

I don't actually go to a lot of games because I think football on TV is better. Even though I'm pretty busy, I watch 90 percent of Ohio State's games.

John Legend

FootballBusyThinkBetterGoGames

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

Jeff Bridges

FunnyTimeSucceedLaughYouI Can

There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and from exile the leaders of freedom will emerge. The world should stand with those oppressed people until the day of their freedom finally arrives.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

FearLiveFreedomDaySilenceWorld

Now, of course, we know there has been an end to apartheid in South Africa, but what excited me was seeing it in the context of history.

Roger Rees

HistoryMeEndSeeingKnowAfrica

I'm proud to be a railway modeler.

Rod Stewart

ProudRailway

The atmospheric CO2 concentration is rising - mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. It's agreed that this build-up will, in itself, induce a long-term warming trend, superimposed on all the other complicated effects that make climate fluctuate.

Martin Rees

ComplicatedWillRisingTrendMake

I don't like being in houses alone.

Martin Scorsese

AloneBeingLikeHouses

I must confess... I don't know any tongue but the Nether-Dutch.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

TongueKnowMustConfessAny

I'm quite surprised I ever got married in the first place.

Anne Reid

PlaceFirstGotSurprisedQuite

I have a very eclectic taste when it comes to music.

Priyanka Chopra

MusicTasteVeryEclectic

As a younger person, I was obsessed with Ray Bradbury, and I think his stories did more to shape me as a storyteller than anybody else - even though, when I read them now, a lot of them seem overly sentimental. But that's probably the writer that I've thought about the most, even though I don't necessarily like a lot of his work.

Shaun Tan

WorkMeThinkThoughtPersonNow

We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.

Shawn Achor

WorkHappyBeing HappyNeedBeing

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