Paul Auster Quotes

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Paul Auster

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• In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Business
  • Opportunity
  • You

• The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Suffering
  • Human
  • See

• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Long
  • Summer
  • June

• We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Will
  • Stand

• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Couple
  • Acting
  • Born

• The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Music
  • Money

• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Heart

• Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • World
  • Different
  • Cool

• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.

  

  Os Guinness
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • Long
  • Business
  • Space

• We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Education
  • Place
  • Equal

• Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Me
  • Poetry
  • Comes

• I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • War
  • Look
  • Month

• Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Heart
  • For Him
  • Kill

• My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• I remember when I was in 'Rent,' Daphne Rubin-Vega threw a party. At the time, she had a loft in TriBeCa, and the elevator opened right into her apartment. I was like, 'I've never seen anything like that.' I didn't know it was possible.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Actors
  • Weakness
  • Trade

• I have this vision of maybe going the way of Bill Kurtis and, I think, Tom Brokaw, to a certain extent - the ability to not be tied to the desk anymore, but to do projects that are meaningful to you.

  

  Lester Holt
  • Vision
  • Meaningful

• When you're trying to sustain a high level of intensity and panic, sometimes it actually helps to have something happen that makes you really afraid because even if in real life it wouldn't make you that scared, to take that little bit of fear and be melodramatic about it, I guess, and convince yourself that it's worse, can be effective.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Future
  • Reality
  • Artist

• Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Trying
  • Reality
  • Study