Paul Theroux Quotes

Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

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• My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Young

• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • History
  • Man
  • Reality

• My first thought is always of light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Light
  • Always
  • Thought

• I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Like
  • Need
  • Hours

• Work is both my living and my pleasure.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Work
  • Pleasure
  • Living

• We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Desire
  • Red
  • Alert

• My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Way
  • Works

• If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Evil

• Yeah, September 11 happened and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Friends
  • Military
  • September

• I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Movies
  • Nothing
  • Run

• 'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Love
  • Experience

• Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to make a tough decision, a financial trade-off, inevitably it's about the first item tossed from the table.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Time
  • Education
  • Decision

• A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and I'm willing to do without until I get it.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Want
  • Personality
  • Without

• The most important thing is to defend the euro.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Important
  • Most
  • Euro

• Black liner around the eye makes your eyes look smaller. I think you should reassess, if you're a really big black liner user, maybe even just doing the top line, not lower, or try a brown or a plum or even a navy.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Black
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • Power
  • Science

• Going out is the typical thing when you turn 18, but it's not really much fun when you have a recognisable face.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Fun
  • Face
  • Turn

• I've gravitated towards independent cinema because you have to work harder in studio scripts to flesh out characters, particularly female ones. They are not as sharply edged, they tend to be quite watery. They are not renderings of women as I know them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Work
  • Women
  • Independent

• There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.

  

  Brian Ross
  • Angels
  • Victims
  • Insurance companies

• you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Wanted
  • Asking
  • I Loved You

• But this is what I want to do, and it is what I will continue doing until Judas Priest finishes, which, at the moment, I can't see that yet. It could be three years or five years, who knows?

  

  Glenn Tipton Judas Priest
  • Want
  • To Do
  • Continue

• We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

  

  Bernard Werber
  • Children
  • Age
  • Fear

• Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

  

  Paul Theroux