Paul Theroux Quotes

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

Paul Theroux

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• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

  

  Mae West
  • Search
  • Coffee
  • Meaning

• It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Character

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Travel

• I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Never
  • Before
  • Wrote

• I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Children
  • Animals
  • Very

• Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Cancer
  • Jealousy
  • Mental

• 'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thankful

• I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Away
  • Pass

• How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Long
  • Man
  • Legs

• The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Working

• I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Think
  • Athlete
  • Grace

• There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones.

  

  Flume
  • Think
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Fight
  • Ring
  • Deadlines

• Despotism is a long crime.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Long
  • Crime
  • Despotism

• I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • First
  • Four
  • My Own

• 'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

  

  Matt Taibbi

• My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor.

  

  Matt Damon
  • She
  • Mother
  • Education

• Believe not because some old manuscripts are produced, believe not because it is your national belief, believe not because you have been made to believe from you childhood, but reason truth out, and after you have analyzed it, then if you find it will do good to one and all, believe it, live up to it and help others live up to it.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Childhood

• Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.

  

  Edward Bach
  • Suffering

• Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Childhood