Itself Quote by Jennifer Egan Download Open image “Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.” — Jennifer Egan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Itself Life Life itself Predictable Story
Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns. — Ilaiyaraaja Copy Share Image
A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way,… — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
It's always very important to me to try to create a story that feels unpredictable. You can't jump ahead and see what's coming, but… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners. — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
“Behind the desk was nothing but view-the whole city flung out in front of us the way street vendors fling out their towels packed… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I just think that, for my particular personality, feeling slightly invisible is always a help. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Between books, I have to throw out everything I did before, because the tools I've used to write the previous book will not only… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I teach intermittently, and while I enjoy it, I don't find that it's a calling for me. — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Thousands of solar panels lift and tilt at the same time, in the same way. I clutch at Dad's arm: "Why are they doing… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“The seconds pass. I know what’s going on because it’s the same thing that always happens: give me something nice, something I love or… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
At night, the house thick with sleep, she would peer out her bedroom window at the trees and sky and feel the presence of… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I understand that you are claiming it is almost impossible to forgive, but only easier to forget. The truth is that, you can only… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
No country by itself and in an isolated manner would ever be able to effectively address the challenges it faces. — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money. — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself.… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and… — Richard Phillips Copy Share Image
The world isn't fast-paced, it's frenetic. People have to be managers of themselves. Time has been managing itself for 15 billion years; we have… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
