Paul Theroux Quotes
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
Quotes to Explore
-
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
-
I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
-
I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
-
If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
-
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
-
Revenge doesn't stop.
-
The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
-
Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
-
Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
-
It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
-
I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
-
French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
-
We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
-
I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
-
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
-
I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.
-
I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
-
How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
-
We have a large public that is very ignorant about world affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans.
-
We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.
-
Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.
-
Every day, I get up, and I fill the bird feeders and put out fruit and other food for both the birds and any passing mammals. Is that pointless long-term? I have no idea. All I know is that on this day, in this moment, it makes a difference.
-
A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.
-
I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
