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Tea Obreht Quotes

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: serbian
Birth: September 30, 1985

Topics

Process Trying Animals Why Always

Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.

Mother Joy Grandmother Normal Relief

I think failing the qualifying or the 11-plus actually hurt me more than I realised. After I'd become a professor of physics at the Open University, I suddenly thought, 'This is a bit silly.' So I suddenly became much more open about it. But I think probably I was hurt by the failure and didn't want to talk about it.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Failure Me Think Hurt Thought Silly

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

John W. Gardner

Excellence Doing Things Well

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Marriage Teacher Peasant Learner

I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

Learning Music Learn More Still Lot

It's one thing to talk the talk; it's another thing to walk after getting whacked with a coconut.

Walk Talk Coconut One Thing After

I'll keep working as long as I live because singing has taken on the feeling of joy that I had when I started, when my only responsibility was to sing well.

Rosemary Clooney

Live Responsibility Joy Singing Long

The men who died at D-Day did not die shoulder-to-shoulder with their French comrades. They died to liberate the French from a sinister and brutal occupation.

Men Die Who Sinister French Did

I'm looking forward to playing Michael Bluth many, many more times.

Looking Forward Looking Forward More

As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.

Jay Alan Sekulow

Suspicion Read Jesus Messiah Really

There's so much you can learn from being on a big tour and so much you can learn from being in the clubs.

Learn You Big Being Tour Much

What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

Life Name Far Enjoyed Merit Indeed

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