Paul Theroux Quotes
There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.
Quotes to Explore
-
Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no, no. They say, 'It's okay. We'll email you.' I can't even get a coffee date at Starbucks. My husband's like, 'Honey, deception? Maybe you could have focused on cooking. How about French cooking?'
-
Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
-
Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
-
It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
-
My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
-
Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.
-
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
-
I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
-
A cat only has itself.
-
I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.
-
Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
-
I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.
-
At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.
-
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
-
There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
-
I used to like humorous people in the past, but these days, I like serious people more.
-
The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
-
I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
-
Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.
-
What attracts me to material are characters that I know - characters that I know people don't know but I know - and bringing them to the screen. Spotlighting voices that have not been heard before on screen.
-
From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.
-
There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.
