Freak Quote by Jonathan Franzen Download Open image “We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.” — Jonathan Franzen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freak May
We live now in a global culture where anything that happens in a place that's 90 minutes from your shores really affects you. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
The reality is when it comes to the U.K. anything with the weather it's almost like we can't cope and we go into meltdown. — Judi Love Copy Share Image
What we have, however, is an issue that has tremendous impact here at home, and we believe that Americans are starting to feel vulnerable,… — Ted Stevens Copy Share Image
In a global world, what happens within one country can all too easily affect others. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution -… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've… — Payne Stewart 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
It was only when I went to acting school that I was like, "You are absolutely such a pigheaded freak show that you thought… — Giles Matthey Copy Share Image
It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There were days on that show where I had to go in and record a song, then I had to rehearse the dance for… — Blake Jenner Copy Share Image
Worst thing in the world? John is completely out of it. Good luck, ladies. He's a freak! — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New… — Gael Greene Copy Share Image
I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
I really hate those Internet freaks who take each thirty minute bundle of joy and turn it into a cult game of Where's Wally. — Danny Baker Copy Share Image
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ would have been considered just another long-haired hippie freak if he hadn't been crucified. The folks weren't impressed with healing the sick,… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which man she'll… — Jillian Medoff Copy Share Image
