Paul Bowles Quotes

Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west.

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• I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Tell

• Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Pain
  • Body
  • Ready

• Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Up
  • May
  • Want

• My parents could not be more Italian.

  

  Edoardo Ponti
  • Parents
  • More
  • Italian

• It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Men
  • You
  • Nice

• One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Find
  • Same
  • Loyalty

• There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Media
  • Now

• If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Best

• I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
  • Work
  • Words

• Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Humor
  • Head
  • Tragedy

• Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

  

  Jack Welch
  • King
  • Competition
  • Communication

• I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • People
  • Think
  • Mistake

• Since we travel a lot as a team, I spend a lot of time on a plane where I like to play 'Football Manager.' I have been a soccer fan since I was 5 years old, so to be able to manage soccer teams is a lot of fun.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Team

• The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy, territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Money
  • Power
  • Peace

• I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Family
  • Love
  • Parents

• Over the last few years, Greece has been in the world spotlight for all the wrong reasons - because of its economic crisis, and then because of the refugees from Syria.

  

  Dakis Joannou
  • World
  • Reason
  • Economic

• You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Tree

• The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?'

  

  Kal Penn
  • Job
  • Parents
  • Water

• We have to create a range, and we have to let there be possibilities. And basically, by showing there are different types of people, you write down the monolith. You stop having to represent for all black people when you allow there to be different types represented.

  

  Dee Rees
  • People
  • Different
  • Black

• Taking care of yourself is so important.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Important
  • Care
  • Yourself

• Every second, ten stars set behind the black water in the west.

  

  Paul Bowles
  • Black
  • Water