Paulo Coelho Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.
-
Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
-
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
-
I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
-
The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
-
I am a Zionist.
-
Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
-
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
-
I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
-
After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
-
I'm an outsider.
-
I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
-
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
-
I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.
-
I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.
-
Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family.
-
The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
-
On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
-
It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
-
No one knows if Saddam is still alive. They keep showing old footage of him on TV saying that it's live. You know, it's like the same thing we do with Dick Cheney.
-
You know, you are not born with a soul. You earn it with suffering, hard work and prayer. Which hopefully you did last night.
-
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
