Adult life Quote by Jonathan Franzen Download Open image ““My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time.”” — Jonathan Franzen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adult life Free time Hero Life Thomas edison
“Free time was the most precious time, when you should be doing what you loved, or at least slowing down enough to remember what… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur,… — Dennis Crosby Copy Share Image
“At an early age I decided I wanted to be the freest man in the universe.” — Cap'n Fatty Goodlander Copy Share Image
“I was amazed at how quickly a person could become an essential part of your life.” — Krystal Sutherland Copy Share Image
“My father built a time machine and then he spent his whole life trying to figure out how to use it to get more… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
“I’ve lived on borrowed time. More than any man deserves. I’ve seen wonders beyond my wildest imaginings. Through these centuries, against the impossibility that… — Sleepy Hollow Press Copy Share Image
“Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you just gotta be your own hero and save your own little heart. Because sometimes the people you can't imagine living without can… — Greg Dybec Copy Share Image
“My only problem was making a living. How to make a living without giving up the freedom was not an easy trick.” — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“They say the best things in life are free. But time is our most valuable asset, and nothing that costs time is free.” — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
“Besides, I did not require heroism--I had been the hero of my own life for some time.” — Gabrielle Zevin 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
“Not very long ago I was driving with my husband on the back roads of Grey County, which is to the north and east… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding. — Jerry Falwell, Jr Copy Share Image
I spent close to a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA and have spent most of my adult life collecting intelligence and… — Will Hurd Copy Share Image
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I have spent most of my adult life in a ghetto among countless other outsiders who have also learned how to talk through the… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life. — Randi Weingarten Copy Share Image
“She could not remember ever being truly happy in her adult life; her years with her mother had been built up devotedly around small… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“So, I begin each day with a gesture of cynicism, and close it with a gesture of faith; or, if you prefer, begin it… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is tough, clever, and formidably well briefed, and has been politically ambitious all her adult life. — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“When I heard Zizek’s statement, I have to admit that I reacted strongly against it. For the first twenty-five years of my adult life,… — Vaddhaka Linn Copy Share Image