Paul Theroux Quotes

I sought trains; I found passengers.

Paul Theroux

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• I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Father
  • Success
  • Best

• I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Guitar

• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Movie
  • My Life

• What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Small
  • City
  • Like

• It's super dope when you connect with something personally.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Something
  • Dope

• We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Hope
  • Humanity

• Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Opportunity
  • Health
  • Quality

• I don't like to tell lies.

  

  Hal Ashby
  • Like
  • Lies
  • Tell

• For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
  • Growth
  • English

• God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• I didn't have a childhood.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Childhood

• I have a fear of labels. If someone labels me, I have to respond - do I acknowledge it, reject it, deny it, live up to it, and defy it? Labels can affect your ability to be yourself. If you're not careful, like I wasn't when I was young, that can take a toll on you. You find yourself conforming to everyone else's ideas of who you are.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Up
  • Live
  • Fear

• Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Life
  • Family
  • Perfect

• I'm not a walking fleet of vanity vans any more than I'm a walking, talking multi-star cast. I might want an entourage, but so far, it is entirely eluding me.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Want
  • Star
  • Might

• For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I've been able to do that since I was young. I don't think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Guy
  • Parents

• As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to the trauma encountered from combat on the battlefield.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Believe
  • Democracy
  • Veteran

• You know how only you can insult your own family? That's how I feel about Florida.

  

  Danielle Schneider
  • Family

• All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.

  

  Laird Hamilton
  • Food
  • Lost
  • Training

• The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • English

• I sought trains; I found passengers.

  

  Paul Theroux