Paul Theroux Quotes

I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

Paul Theroux

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• When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Know
  • Teenager
  • Rules

• I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Years
  • Loved

• In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Art
  • Man
  • Himself

• Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Positive
  • Research
  • Negative

• I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Best
  • Dark
  • Theatre

• I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• Before 'Music and Lyrics,' I was just doing high school plays and singing in my church choir and my school choir.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Son

• Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.

  

  Beck
  • You
  • Air
  • Start

• I wouldn't know how to think inside the box because I don't even know where it is. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Think
  • Know
  • Box

• Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Everyone
  • Started
  • Rumors

• I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Years
  • Seven
  • Member

• When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Country
  • Man

• In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Point
  • Case
  • Obscure

• In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea. But it's also about who you know.

  

  Kevin Plank
  • Great
  • Business

• Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Time
  • Taken

• Don't get confused; doing choreography in the ring can be done by anyone. I take the guy who works in the gas station on the corner, and I teach him a choreography for a week, and I swear he can do it in a ring.

  

  Alberto Del Rio
  • Guy
  • Ring
  • Choreography

• We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

  

  A.S.A. Harrison
  • Up
  • Live
  • Desire

• Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Sadness
  • Garment
  • God Loves

• I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.

  

  Paul Theroux