Paul Auster Quotes

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

Paul Auster

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• Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Art
  • Political
  • Politics

• I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Moments

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Important
  • Country
  • Character

• When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Work
  • Small

• It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Growing
  • Water
  • Sun

• It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Look
  • Feet
  • Cute

• They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.

  

  Adam Petty
  • Up
  • Really
  • Line

• Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?

  

  Florence Harding
  • You
  • Going
  • Presidency

• It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Said
  • Obsession
  • Costs

• I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Guys
  • Serial
  • Monogamist

• I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.

  

  Patrick White
  • Bad
  • Produce
  • Novels

• Hatred is blind, as well as love.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my book reviews.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Name
  • Pen

• A lot of comedians are selfish.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Selfish
  • Lot
  • Comedians

• A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Plague
  • Eminence
  • Stares

• As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Up
  • Me
  • Difficult

• My first show, in England, was called 'Soldier, Soldier.'

  

  James Callis
  • Soldier

• Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are already trustless - any machine can accept it from any other, securely. They are (nearly) free. They are global - no central bank required, and any machine can speak the language.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Free
  • Language
  • Speak

• I had the ability, but I didn't have the name. They could have built me, which is what they did with Deborah Kerr, but I don't think I was quite hot enough in the looks department, quite frankly. I was all talent and no looks.

  

  Angela Lansbury

• They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

  

  Socrates
  • Better
  • Nothing
  • Employed

• I found that photography was a great way of relaxing on the set.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Great
  • Photography

• The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Lying
  • Photography
  • Evidence