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Day Quotes by Susan Orlean
- The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll curse the natives...…
- One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.
- A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.
- Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone…
- I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.
- Election Day outside of big cities is different. For one thing, there are so few people in my town that each individual vote really does…
- On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all…
- I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the…
- I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded,…
- I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to…
- 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…
- 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…
- You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones,…
More Day Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong