Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
Quote by Susan Orlean
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Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
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Susan Orlean Quotes
- Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.
- In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.
- I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.
- Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.
- You may never learn the names of any of the people you talk to in a dog park, even after many, many hours spent there with them, and many hours of conversation. But if - knock on wood - anything should ever happen to your dog, these nameless non-strangers will rally, sympathize, offer to help, and hold your hand. I know this from experience.
- When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.
- The thing is, I have a zillion apps, and I'm always looking for the perfect arrangement for them, so scrambling my home screen is part of that eternal quest.
- I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his cell phone on? Is he one of those people who only turns on his cell when he's in his car? I hate that.
- Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
- I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his cell phone on? Is he one of those people who only turns on his cell when he's in his car? I hate that.
Best Quotes
- Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
- Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
- He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.
- For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
- Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
- Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
- The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
- To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
- Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.