Sean Egan quote: "Moody's chairman, Clifford Alexander, was on the board of WorldCom up until last year, ... The biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history, and the chairman of Moody's was on the board. There's no way that should happen. He also shouldn't be on the board of the National Association of Securities Dealers. They're supposed to be independent."

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
GREG EGAN

My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natu...
SUSAN EGAN

I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle peopl...
JENNIFER EGAN

Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doe...
JENNIFER EGAN

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.
DORIS EGAN

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious pe...
DORIS EGAN

You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special th...
SUSAN EGAN

The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a...
JENNIFER EGAN

I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to a...
JENNIFER EGAN

I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate ...
JENNIFER EGAN

Soiled, forgotten coats of arms were carved above their massive doorways, and these unsettled Ted: s...
JENNIFER EGAN

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF w...
GREG EGAN

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.
GREG EGAN

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, withou...
JENNIFER EGAN

I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to...
SUSAN EGAN

I was on a very bumpy plane ride, an overnight flight. I was so miserable, and I pulled out 'Dav...
JENNIFER EGAN

Telecommunications billing systems are large, complex entities that have to be integrated to support...
BOB EGAN

GPS systems only work within certain ranges. If a user is inside a building, the system may not be a...
BOB EGAN

The wireless data market will die a thousand deaths in the business and consumer markets as service ...
BOB EGAN

If 1999 saw the introduction of some very early offerings, the year 2000 will be a confluence of a t...
BOB EGAN

Enterprises and consumers alike have an insatiable appetite for network access availability, speed a...
BOB EGAN

This aggressive move by Sprint should further accelerate the company's momentum in wireless broadban...
BOB EGAN

WAP is sort of wireless duct tape.
BOB EGAN

Eventually, RIM will be forced to decide whether it is a hardware or a software company.
BOB EGAN

Equipment vendors and service providers understand the need to improve their emergency services. But...
BOB EGAN

Everyone's taken notice; the word on the street is that BlackBerry is in a jam.
BOB EGAN

I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept...
JENNIFER EGAN

If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; ...
JENNIFER EGAN

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.
JENNIFER EGAN

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's w...
JENNIFER EGAN

I haven't had trouble with writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writ...
JENNIFER EGAN

We had the tempo where we wanted it and we were in the 1-and-1 already, and then we turn it over and...
BARRY EGAN

If these groups are knowingly assisting illegal immigrants, they may feel morally compelled to provi...
PAUL EGAN

The book that is the closest genetically to 'Goon Squad' is 'Look at Me.' It has the...
JENNIFER EGAN

I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but ob...
GREG EGAN

It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It&...
JENNIFER EGAN

Yet each disappointment Ted felt in his wife, each incremental deflation, was accompanied by a seizu...
JENNIFER EGAN

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.
JENNIFER EGAN

When It Feels Like Your Life Is Falling Apart, Maybe It's Simply God Rearranging The Pieces As He In...
BELINDA EGAN

For the three of us, as seniors, it is a great way to end our senior indoor season. This is the best...
AMANDA EGAN

Even the financial disclosure statements that political bloggers were required to post hadn't stemme...
JENNIFER EGAN

We got a little tired, and that's what they (the Streaks) predicate themselves on.
BARRY EGAN

We came out in the third period, played them straight up and knocked it to one. We had ample opportu...
BARRY EGAN

I think our guys are playing better as a group and doing things better, but we're playing for an ide...
BARRY EGAN

That's the mark of a team playing for a league title. They're not leading the league by accident.
BARRY EGAN

They changed up their pressure and we did not do a good job adapting to it.
BARRY EGAN

The TVC universe will never collapse. Never. A hundred billion years, a hundred trillion; it makes n...
GREG EGAN

There’s a cellular automaton called TVC. After Turing, von Neumann and Chiang. Chiang’s version ...
GREG EGAN

Now he was…dust. To an outside observer, these ten seconds had been ground up into ten thousand un...
GREG EGAN

He adamantly denies any involvement in the recent appalling tragedies,
RICHARD EGAN

If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've g...
JENNIFER EGAN

If you can?t find something here, you can?t find it anywhere. There?s a pirate in everyone!
CAMILLE EGAN

So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned ou...
JENNIFER EGAN

I was obsessed with The Who. I would have accepted a marriage proposal from Roger Daltrey on the spo...
JENNIFER EGAN

Five years ago, boy bands could get away with having one good vocalist and four good looking guys. N...
KIAN EGAN

Our children are less of a risk than any other adolescence. We provide them with constant supervisio...
SHAWNA EGAN

It's really unexpected. We were all in the stands holding hands and taking down everyone's splits. W...
AMANDA EGAN

Typically, these things would die off in smaller scales. We're hoping that we've seen the worst of i...
JIM EGAN

I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love ...
JENNIFER EGAN

A stoppage of BlackBerry would cause major havoc. CEOs use them, doctors use them, Wall Street guys ...
BOB EGAN

Unfortunately, users may not know a network does not support 911 services until they make those call...
BOB EGAN

But Bennie knew that what he was bringing into the world was shit. Too clear, too clean. The problem...
JENNIFER EGAN

Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which su...
JENNIFER EGAN

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.
JENNIFER EGAN

This Alcatraz swim is something I've wanted to do since I was a kid. Back in 1979 when (the movie) '...
TERRY EGAN

I appreciate the pressure to win I have always experienced at Princeton. It motivates and contribute...
JAMES EGAN

We hope to see more Tastefully Tackys down the road. I go by the theory of reciprocity - if we are a...
MICHAEL EGAN

She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame...
JENNIFER EGAN

Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, ...
JENNIFER EGAN

a unique flavor to add to their homes.
MICHAEL EGAN

When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned o...
JENNIFER EGAN

The $1 million goal we've set since 1999 is achievable, but not in these difficult economic times in...
WILLIAM EGAN

Let the Wisdom of lessons learned be your HOPE for the future.
BELINDA EGAN

While all this was going on, the one-and-only Jimmy Swaggart was preaching from the pulpit, while th...
TIMOTHY EGAN

Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of s...
JENNIFER EGAN

He was big and brown and furry and my hair was brown. He kind of tossed it into the wings so it look...
SUSAN EGAN

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of ...
JENNIFER EGAN

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.
JENNIFER EGAN

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly....
JENNIFER EGAN

There's no real road map to L.A. Everyone's journey is different. You have to persevere and ...
CHRISTOPHER EGAN

Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of...
JENNIFER EGAN

It's finished. Everything went past, without me.
JENNIFER EGAN

I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not cari...
JENNIFER EGAN

He is not a Navy SEAL and he's not a CIA operative.
THOMAS EGAN

People are curious about what?s back here. People keep coming back -- if you like it, you will be ba...
CAMILLE EGAN

I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of ...
JENNIFER EGAN

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle...
JENNIFER EGAN

Time’s a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?” Scotty shook his head. “The go...
JENNIFER EGAN

It's not an emergency line. People can call and leave a message regarding a safety concern, residenc...
ELLEN EGAN

They maintain a visible yet understated presence, acting proactively rather than reactively. Student...
ELLEN EGAN

That's important. You can tell right away if someone is supposed to be here.
ELLEN EGAN

As a district, we must focus on ensuring our students and staff come to safe schools. Historically, ...
ELLEN EGAN

What made Wellington Mara was his faith and his family, ... He has run the race of life, and he has ...
EDWARD EGAN

We're facing a very tragic situation. Our Holy Father wishes to speak with us about [the scandal], a...
EDWARD EGAN

It is clear that today, we have a much better understanding of this problem, ... If in hindsight we ...
EDWARD EGAN

My first reaction was, 'Edward: Get down on your knees and beg the Lord to give you a hand -- and do...
EDWARD EGAN

To be able to serve is quite humbling, ... The responsibility has been accepted with great joy.
EDWARD EGAN

whoever is writing your material.
EDWARD EGAN

Please keep the Holy Father in your prayers,
EDWARD EGAN

he touched the hearts of all.
EDWARD EGAN

Coming from New York, I am especially concerned,
EDWARD EGAN

everything is up for grabs.
EDWARD EGAN

I picture it like Judgement Day,' he says finally, his eyes on the water. 'We'll rise up out of our ...
JENNIFER EGAN

This is us -- we are very beach-oriented and wanted to create an atmosphere similar to that. And we ...
CAMILLE EGAN

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conq...
JENNIFER EGAN

And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathe...
JENNIFER EGAN

The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved...
JENNIFER EGAN

The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, t...
JENNIFER EGAN

Presumably, more choices are better than less choices.
DAN EGAN

Generally speaking, 95 percent of all branch applications get approved. It's really not a controvers...
DAN EGAN

I think he's letting the marketplace kind of dictate the pace.
DAN EGAN

I have polled our members a couple of times on this and have found very few in favor.
DAN EGAN

What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any wor...
JENNIFER EGAN

I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.
JENNIFER EGAN

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new w...
GREG EGAN

Those with legitimate access is where the real problem lies.
GERRY EGAN

We've already implemented separation of duties.
GERRY EGAN

We want to become a well-rounded company. Acquisitions are one way of doing things, but self-innovat...
GERRY EGAN

NCR and Microsoft are long-term retail industry partners, ... This certification allows us to more f...
GREG EGAN

some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling sho...
JENNIFER EGAN

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet.
JENNIFER EGAN

I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never lea...
JENNIFER EGAN

The sky was electric blue above the trees but the yard felt dark. Stephanie went to the edge of the ...
JENNIFER EGAN

Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually ...
JENNIFER EGAN

I think it's a goal we can achieve. Brown is going to be an extremely tough competitor, so we'll tra...
JAMES EGAN

I'm happy every time we can go out and execute our race plan well. It was a good start because each ...
JAMES EGAN

We have a special name, here, for a certain kind of failure to defer to the greater good—for putti...
GREG EGAN

Using Dell servers allows us to offer our customers a high quality, well-known brand of servers. The...
JASON EGAN

If I’d said that to my sensible, smutty, twelve-year-old self, he would have laughed until he hemo...
GREG EGAN

Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.
JENNIFER EGAN

I’m done. I’m old, I’m sad - that’s on a good day. I want out of this mess. But I don’t wa...
JENNIFER EGAN

We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a...
JENNIFER EGAN

There are so many ways to go wrong. All we've got are metaphors, and they're never exactly right. Yo...
JENNIFER EGAN

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, ...
JENNIFER EGAN

The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them—listen to me. And I know that Lou is ...
JENNIFER EGAN

You said you were a fairy princess
You said you were a shooting star
You said we'd go to B...
JENNIFER EGAN

I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: t...
JENNIFER EGAN

It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bone...
JENNIFER EGAN

Oftentimes my work will be purchased hours after it is made,
MICHAEL EGAN

When we've got a deal, we have to move forward.
PAT EGAN

They seem to be a mystery. Their whole league seems to be a mystery. We?re kind of going in a little...
PETE EGAN

He denies the allegation and has done from day one.
RICHARD EGAN

Like I told the kids, it could be the best defensive game County High School has played since I've b...
SCOTT EGAN

they were a little surprised, not only to find him packaged and ready to go by a N.Y. medic crew.
TIMOTHY EGAN

The $1 million goal we've set since 1999 is achievable, but not in these difficult economic times in...
WILLIAM EGAN

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.
SIR JOHN EGAN

A pagan heart, a Christian soul had he. He followed Christ, yet for dead Pan he sighed, As if ...
MAURICE FRANCIS EGAN

Miners could afford to own one of these. They were little; they were made by village painters, and t...
MARTHA J. EGAN

Typically, outside of churches there would be people selling religious souvenirs. There would be som...
MARTHA J. EGAN

Part of the church's opposition might have been its pagan connotations. All along, the church has be...
MARTHA J. EGAN

Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by pu...
SEAN COMBS

There are doctors who help people who have done bad things; there are lawyers who defend bad people....
SEAN SPICER

Some age, others mature.
SEAN CONNERY

I don't want to do any more movies where I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, gross.'
SEAN YOUNG

I don't really like doing interviews.
SEAN YOUNG

I have a lot of supporters.
SEAN YOUNG

Because of the incredible reputation I have, people find me exciting to watch on film.
SEAN YOUNG

I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing.
SEAN YOUNG

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.
SEAN YOUNG

If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to a...
SEAN YOUNG

Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't wan...
SEAN YOUNG

If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't...
SEAN YOUNG

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice thing...
SEAN YOUNG

I'm just into having fun, because I went through some bad years that really depressed me and mad...
SEAN YOUNG

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my ...
SEAN YOUNG

The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.
SEAN YOUNG

I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my o...
BIG SEAN

Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way the...
SEAN COVEY

I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want t...
SEAN HANNITY

I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed v...
BIG SEAN

Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.
SEAN O'FAOLAIN

People from all walks of life and all over the world look at me and know my humble beginnings and kn...
SEAN COMBS

I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of f...
SEAN SPICER

For small community banks and credit unions, like those in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the hundr...
SEAN DUFFY

Working in a garden calms me down.
SEAN BEAN

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you&#...
SEAN PENN

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it crea...
SEAN O'FAOLAIN

By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits ou...
SEAN PAUL

I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth.
SEAN BALTZ

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and the...
SEAN ASTIN

Being from New York, there's three things you know about Hollywood. You know about the Hollywood...
SEAN COMBS

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion...
SEAN O'CASEY

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essent...
SEAN O'CASEY

The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's ...
SEAN O'CASEY

I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their ...
SEAN CONNERY

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on...
SEAN O'CASEY

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other thing...
SEAN O'CASEY

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you fin...
SEAN PENN

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels li...
SEAN LENNON

Sometimes I feel like putting on a blazer with just a T-shirt.
BIG SEAN

Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, whe...
SEAN O'CASEY

I had an advantage because people would post me on blogs because I had co-signs from Kanye West, Def...
BIG SEAN

The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
SEAN O'CASEY

When everything gets answered, it's fake.
SEAN PENN

The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying i...
SEAN O'CASEY

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is ...
SEAN CONNERY

Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbol...
SEAN O'CASEY

Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities...
SEAN O'CASEY

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and wi...
SEAN O'CASEY

Work is a part of life, not the point of it.
SEAN ADAMS

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