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Me Quotes by Susan Orlean
- There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to. It's like trying to write…
- 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…
- Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
- I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists…
- Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.
- I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment.
- Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?
- I had never considered using a hashtag anywhere other than on Twitter, but now I'm inspired. Text messages have always seemed a little flat to…
- Everything rational and sensible abandons me when I try to throw out photographs. Time and time again, I hold one over a wastebasket, and then…
- I might have missed my calling as an editor. In the spring, the sight of my empty garden beds gives me the horticultural equivalent of…
- I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of…
- I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the…
- It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by…
- 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…
- 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 I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance…
- The semiology and phenomenology of hashtaggery intrigues me. From what I understand, it all began very simply: on Twitter, hashtags - those little checkerboard marks…
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale