All Susan Orlean Quotes
- Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head,… Alligator
- Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know… Any
- Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and… All
- States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt… Animal
- The iPhone calendar isn't bad, but it isn't great, either. It only offers a day view and a month view - it doesn't have a… Bad
- The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part… Always Looking
- There are cultures that believe having your photograph taken steals your soul. I don't think there is a stolen soul in a picture, but still… Believe
- There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy… All
- There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom… Animal
- To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits… Alley
- When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance… Any
- When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at… Afternoon
- When it comes to consumer electronics, I'm a big fat sucker, because even though I know you should never, ever buy anything until the second… Beta
- When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I… Born
- Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the… Always Hard
- Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the… All
- You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones,… Cameras
- You may never learn the names of any of the people you talk to in a dog park, even after many, many hours spent there… Any
- I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes. Carrying
- I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately. Care
- An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. Both
- The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions… Always Getting
- If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger? Always Linger
- When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it. Better
- When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became… Automobiles