Nicole Krauss Quotes

There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

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• I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Parents
  • Crazy
  • Month

• I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • People
  • House
  • Know

• I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Think
  • Success
  • Follow

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Drama

• I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Job
  • Attention
  • Try

• Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • God
  • Feel Good

• I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Time
  • History
  • inspirational

• I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Research

• I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.

  

  Kaki King
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Play

• Love and despair go hand in hand.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Love
  • Hand
  • For Her

• If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Getting
  • Out
  • Homer

• In my view, the fact that computers caught up to humans and completely dominate humans in chess and some other domains already, that says there's evidence that, yes, in principle, they can be better programmers than humans.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Better
  • Chess

• My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don’t have the guts to sometimes say: I don’t know....

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Quality

• 'Nyxnissa?'She looked back at the queen. 'There are no happy endings, Nyxnissa.''I know,' Nyx said. 'Life keeps going.'

  

  Kameron Hurley
  • Life
  • She
  • Happy

• This in turn suggests an answer to our question: what happened between the birth of De Sade and the birth of Krafft-Ebbing? The rise of the novel taught Europe to use its imagination. And when imagination was applied to sex, the result was the rise of pornography - and of 'sexual perversion.'

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Question
  • Imagination
  • Sex

• ‘Look at her,’ said Patrick, ‘pacing around the cage of her Valentino dress, longing to be released into her natural habitat.’

  

  Edward St Aubyn

• Let me say that if the political arena is your choice as you work to keep our democracy strong and our essential freedoms accessible for all, then that is what you should do, and I salute you. We need champions in all walks of our civic discourse.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Work
  • Political
  • Strong

• Moods, however, do seem to influence what we choose to eat. People in happy moods tended to prefer healthier foods, such as pizza or steak. People in sad moods were much more likely to reach for ice cream, cookies, or a bag of potato chips.

  

  Brian Wansink
  • People
  • Eat
  • Moods

• A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

  

  Franz Liszt
  • Quality

• I find the 1940s very compelling. It is a very excitable period in the U.S. when, whether out of necessity or not, everybody was reinventing themselves.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • Period

• There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

  

  Nicole Krauss
  • People
  • Sad
  • Types