Paul Auster Quotes
Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.
Quotes to Explore
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How lucky am I?
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Inequality of women concerns both India and France, though it might have different manifestations in both the countries.
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No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.
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The whole idea that the Constitution of the United States would be used to advance a political agenda is absurd.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.
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In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.
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Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.
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I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
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And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.
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As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
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Quality attracts quality. People want to be on a good show.
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Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.
