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

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• 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

• We have changing weather patterns, and we have climate change. This is the science. I hope that my party will come to be comfortable with this because we have to operate in the realm of knowledge and science.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • Hope
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

  

  Claude Pepper
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Fall

• I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face.

  

  Alice Temperley
  • Up
  • Water
  • Morning

• 'City Of Black And White' was me trying to do something more mature, more adult contemporary.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Trying
  • Black
  • City

• As there were black swans, though civilized people had existed for three thousand years on the earth without meeting with them...The uniform experience, therefore, of the inhabitants of the known world, agreeing in a common result, without one known instance of deviation from that result, is not always sufficient to establish a general conclusion.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

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

  

  Paul Bowles
  • Black
  • Water