Being responsible Quote by Jonathan Franzen Download Open image “I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.” — Jonathan Franzen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being responsible Fitness Responsible Taste
It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
My learning from my travels is that taste is objective. If a thing is tasty, it's universally tasty. Or, just not. — Ranveer Brar Copy Share Image
You cannot predict public taste. That's why I always just trusted mine. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
We're not big on taste. And actually, if you don't pander to undue sensitivities, then it ends up usually not being much of a… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste. — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Can a better kind of fiction save the world? There’s always some tiny hope (strange things do happen), but the answer is almost certainly… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I'm saying the structure and f the entire culture is flawed, chip said. I'm saying the bureaucracy has arrogated the right to define certain… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“It was this motley band of modest peeps and plovers on the beach who reminded me of the human beings I loved best -… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path. — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
This is a difference between being a governor and being in a legislature. Because when something doesn't work in New Jersey, they look at… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
When a health policy analyst went to heaven, he asked God the same question: 'Will America ever have a single-payer system?' And God said,… — Stuart Altman Copy Share Image
I am involved with so many charitable organizations. Lung Cancer because of my dad, Breast Cancer because as a woman and mother of two… — Lois Robbins Copy Share Image
People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them. — Carl Paladino Copy Share Image
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image