Dana Spiotta Quotes

I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street,' or '#OccupyWallStreet.' It works because the name contains everything you need to know: the tactic and the target. The name is also modular. You can create your own offshoot in your own city.

Dana Spiotta

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

PowerGreatCityNameYouWall

The past is full of examples of renegade writers who were overlooked in their time not only because their work didn't fit neatly into potted categories but also because they avoided the self-promotional efforts of their peers.

Joanna Scott

WorkTimePastPeersBecauseOnly

Even though I read voraciously as a child, I never saw myself in books. Without narratives to expand my ideas of who I could be, I accepted the stories others told me about myself, stories which diminished and belittled me and people like me. I want to write against that.

Jesmyn Ward

MyselfChildPeopleMeIdeasWant

Good products win out.

Jerry Della Femina

GoodWinOutProducts

I was planning to transition right after high school and attend university as a girl, but then the modeling thing came up. It was an opportunity to see the world. My family knew I identified as a girl, but I didn't tell people in fashion.

Andreja Pejic

FamilyGirlOpportunitySchoolWorld

To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

Ann Bancroft

DogJobPushInterestingRunAlways

At the end of the day, the last thing I want to do is - well, anything. I just want to sleep. I crash out hard every day at 'Common Law.' I definitely lost a couple years of my life just on the fatigue factor on the first season.

Michael Ealy

LifeDaySleepLawEndMy Life

In fact, I believe the first companies that make an effort to develop an authentic, transparent, and meaningful social contract with their fans and customers will turn out to be the ones that are the most successful in the future. While brands that refuse to make the effort will lose stature and customer loyalty.

Simon Mainwaring

FutureLoyaltyEffortBelieveLose

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

Simon Sinek

HumilityIdeasConfusedOthersNever

It was really weird, when this thing started, to hear lawyers and MTV people calling me and actually saying 'ButtHead.' People tried to avoid it too.

Mike Judge

PeopleMeSayingWeirdLawyersHear

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

Michel Onfray

HopeJoyBabyPresentLoseEarth

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in.

Mitch Kapor

TodayEnvironmentNowFarmersWild

The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

Joyce Meyer

FamilyGodLightJobPeopleWorld

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Dana Spiotta