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Something Quotes by Susan Orlean
- I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to work, you do…
- I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that he was only…
- You have to appreciate the spiritual component of having an opportunity to do something as wondrous as writing. You should be practical and smart and…
- I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.
- What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from…
- I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because…
- I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors sign something else? A flyer, perhaps?…
- I suppose I do have one embarrassing passion- I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately.
- 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…
- If you had really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it always linger?
- When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.
More Something Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle