Paul Auster Quotes

The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

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• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Different
  • Character
  • Song

• I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Looking

• Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Desire
  • Need
  • Divine

• Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Music
  • Different
  • Way

• To taste fully is to live fully.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Live
  • Taste
  • Fully

• As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Long
  • Working
  • I Can

• If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Find

• I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Ignorance
  • Will
  • Expose

• I initially wanted to work in the music industry more on the A&R side. While I was in school, I began working in the New Business department of an advertising firm, and very quickly I was responsible for roughly 70% of their business, so you could say I had a natural knack for the advertising world.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• In the midst of the heartbreak and wreckage of 9-11, the world also witnessed what is America's greatest strength. Firefighters, nurses, police officers, first responders and local residents worked around the clock to rescue and care for those injured.

  

  Dan Coats
  • World
  • America
  • Police

• Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Power
  • Light

• What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Why
  • Power

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and least expensive manipulation of all.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Pain
  • Deception
  • Manipulation

• When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • True
  • Purpose
  • Communication

• Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Good
  • Mind

• Having been created in the image and likeness of God, unlike trees or flowers or fire or the moon, we are most fully human when we love, forgive and work toward peace. To be violent, vengeful or selfish is to be un-human!

  

  Daniel Horan
  • Humanity
  • Moon
  • Flower

• There are many people who are so inclined to say "no" that the "no" always precedes whatever we say to them. This negative quality makes them so disagreeable that, even if they do what we want them to or agree with what we say, they always lose the pleasure that they might have received had they not started off so badly.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • People
  • Quality
  • Negative

• It's important for us as Democrats to stick together.

  

  Frank Pallone
  • Important
  • Together

• Homeland security is inherently transnational today. There's hardly anything adverse that happens in our homeland that doesn't have a cause or effect that's generated abroad. Increasingly, we must rely on our allies and foreign governments to share information and data to secure our country.

  

  Alan Bersin
  • Country
  • Today
  • Security

• If you a chicken head, go somewhere and lay some eggs

  

  2 Chainz
  • Eggs
  • Chickens
  • Lays

• The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.

  

  Paul Auster