Philipp Meyer Quotes

I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With writing, that turned out to be wrong. I tried my hardest and failed for about fifteen years.

Philipp Meyer

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• Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Truth

• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Music
  • Inspiration
  • Uniqueness

• I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mind

• Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Something
  • Leisure
  • Haste

• I never said most of the things I said.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Said

• I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Mind
  • Career
  • Thought

• As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Day
  • Rest

• I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Believe
  • Find
  • Jazz

• It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Strong
  • Culture

• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Being
  • Interdependence

• Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • You
  • Find
  • Look

• Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
  • Child
  • Beast

• We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Red
  • Storm
  • Weapons

• I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Marriage
  • Arranged

• I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Know
  • Scary

• The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Police
  • Stuff
  • Academy

• I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano.

  

  Anthony Warlow
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Boy

• I don't know if I always want to be in front of the camera. I love producing, I love the camaraderie. I love the adventures. I love the stress.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Adventure
  • Stress
  • Cameras

• The truth, finally, is who can tell it.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Finally

• I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Writing
  • Enjoy
  • Quit

• I'm not one for writing names on my wrist when I play. Actually, I internalise a lot. But my brother and I are so connected... everything I do is for him.

  

  Adam Elliott
  • Writing
  • Brother

• I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With writing, that turned out to be wrong. I tried my hardest and failed for about fifteen years.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Writing