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.

Paul Auster

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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

• There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97.

  

  Bruce Schneier

• One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • House
  • Causes
  • Journalist

• When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Fall
  • Church
  • Sin

• The whole idea of Mass Effect3 is resolving all of the biggest questions, about the Protheons and the Reapers, and being in the driver's seat to end the galaxy and all of these big plot lines, to decide what civilizations are going to live or die: All of these things are answered in Mass Effect 3.

  

  Casey Hudson
  • Ideas
  • Ends
  • Civilization

• 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