Paul Auster Quotes
We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.
Quotes to Explore
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The Swiss can be very difficult.
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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.
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Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
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For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
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Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality- or you light as well hire robots.
Nanna Øland Fabricius
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Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.
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Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
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The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
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There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.
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The predominant quality of successful people is optimism.... Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be.
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Politically, Donald Trump doesn't seem to care much about what he says. He gauges the effect. Sometimes, in the middle of a speech, he will change his direction if the audience doesn't like him.
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Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth – that's the way home. Neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves – that's youth and that's love. Neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night – so the rope, paper, knife.
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Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.
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I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.
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I want to look at my audience and see all walks of life. I want to do something for everybody.
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When he didn't answer, she didn't know if it was because he couldn't or if he was back to not talking to her. Back to pushing her out of his life. Men! Why was it that boys said girls were so hard to understand, when she hadn't known a single guy who hadn't confused her to the point of screaming?
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We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.
