Paul Theroux Quotes

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Myself

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • New
  • Down
  • Colonies

• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • High
  • Going
  • Rises

• At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Life
  • Player
  • Childhood

• It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Things

• I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.

  

  Jack Carroll
  • God
  • Forever
  • Bus

• We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• A good leader must be fair.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Fair

• The important thing is to do what you most love in the best way. If you love literature, you could be a great writer and perhaps one day become a Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Important
  • Way
  • Best

• I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Walk

• We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Home
  • Focus

• I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Space

• At the end of the day, it's a very powerful voice when you're able to perform on any level on any stage and have the audience, have the attention of children. It's a gift. It's not to be taken lightly, and it can be used for good or for bad.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Good
  • Children
  • Bad

• Because we're sponsored by competing breweries there is always competition. When we were both fighting for ninth or 10th place, nobody really cared except the two companies.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Fighting
  • Competition
  • Place

• I'm going through life's cycles at an alarmingly fast pace, but my persona has a Peter Pan quality: he doesn't age.

  

  Billy Collins
  • Life
  • Age
  • Quality

• In TV, when you come in to direct an episode, you are effectively learning an established language; you then have to try to learn to speak it really well. But on a movie, you are the guy. You are creating the language; you make most of the decisions.

  

  Alan Taylor
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Learning

• The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Good
  • Japanese