Logo
Quote by Susan Orlean
I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree

I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think Ill probably be given jewelry instead. – Susan Orlean

Other quotes by Susan Orlean

I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle – a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own – and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip. – Susan Orlean

Category:
Home
Author
Susan Orlean
Read Quote

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way. – Susan Orlean

Category:
Future
Author
Susan Orlean
Read Quote

I once had a boyfriend who couldnt write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something. – Susan Orlean

Category:
alone
Author
Susan Orlean
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Birthday
category

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didnt see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music. – Barry White

Category:
Birthday

I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday. – Jesse Plemons

Category:
Birthday

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days. – Otis Blackwell

Category:
Birthday

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique. – Celine Dion

Category:
Birthday

Random Quotes

In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely…. Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius… – Okakura Kakuzō

Category:
Tea

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. – Peter Drucker

Category:
Leadership

Its so funny, because right now Im very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, Im probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now. – Gillian Anderson

Category:
funny

That son of a bitch was able to hole a putt over 60 feet of peanut brittle. – Lloyd Mangrum, about Bobby Locke

Category:
Golf