Floyd Skloot Quotes
Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
-
I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
-
I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
-
Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.
-
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
-
The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
-
The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
-
Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
-
We never see ourselves as others see us.
-
When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
-
Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
-
If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
-
I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
-
I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.
-
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
-
I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
-
Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
-
With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels like we're making a really long film.
-
Never underestimate your own ignorance.
-
When you reach a level of status - and making it to college is an accomplishment in itself - you are trying to define who you are.
-
Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.
-
'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and you just want to be a little silly.
-
Nur dem, der Glück verachtet, wird Erkenntnis.
-
Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.
