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Keith Gessen Quotes

To be on the other side of the law-and-order machine in this country is awful. It is dehumanizing and degrading and deforming. It fills you with a helpless rage because, once there, you can only make things worse for yourself by speaking up.

Keith Gessen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 9, 1975

Topics

Yourself You Country Rage Up Side

Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there.

John Aniston

People Bad People You Bad Why Try

When I went into the computer shop to change my last laptop, the 19-year-old kid behind the counter looked at my six-year-old model and described it as 'vintage.' 'Vintage?' I wanted to scream. 'Son, I've got shirts older than you! I own underpants that have seen more of the world!'

John Niven

Change Son World Vintage You Kid

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.

Robert Redford

Money Mind Think End Pressure Now

Floyd Mayweather has fought the biggest names throughout his career and has earned the right to face whoever he chooses.

Amir Khan

Face Career Right Names Earned He

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

Steve Jobs

Best People World Want Things Hire

Nerves can be useful, as they sharpen you up, make you determined to try your hardest and do your best.

Stephen Cole

Best Do Your Best You Try Determined

If you're running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.

Stanley Druckenmiller

Business Money Doing Long You Back

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Learning Age Old Age Youth Long You

Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively.

Monica Crowley

Time Support Clouds Dark Office Far

I'm an Obama chick.

Judy Blume

Chick Obama

I'd like my writing to be recognized with a Grammy.

Chely Wright

Writing Like Recognized Grammy

Because I like to think, I find it difficult to sleep, and because I find it difficult to sleep, I think.

Ciputra

Sleep Think Find Difficult Because