"Basically what we have here is a dreamer.……" — Jeffrey Eugenides
"Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly"
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213 Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides has 213 quotes on this site.
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I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.
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I was unemployable when I got out of college.
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I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
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No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
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They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and…
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My goal in life is to become an adjective,
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My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
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I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to…
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If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each…
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Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to…
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In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in…
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The worst thing about religion was religious people.
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More Dreamer Quotes
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one of 471 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
— Dean Acheson
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the…
— Gaston Bachelard
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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
— Douglas Adams
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Dreaming men are haunted men.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
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This is the city of dreamers and time and again it's the place where the greatest dream of all, the…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.
— Sarah Brightman
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You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
— Herb Brooks
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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
— Charlie Chaplin
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I might dream, but I am no dreamer.
— Jack Abramoff
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Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their…
— Marie Curie
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The trouble is that all the investigators proceeded in exactly the same spirit, the spirit that is of scientific curiosity,…
— Unknown Author
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Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
— Erma Bombeck
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