Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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• Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Great
  • Change
  • Years

• I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Brain
  • Helps

• If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Car

• Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Man
  • Party
  • Eyes

• We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Country
  • May
  • Problem

• You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • You
  • Going
  • Customers

• I love curves; I'm all about curves. I don't have many, which is really sad, but I think the more the better.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Think
  • Better
  • Sad

• I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Being
  • Saying
  • Islam

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.

  

  Dan Bucatinsky
  • Person
  • Creative
  • Jobs

• What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Care

• I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • People
  • Love
  • Comedy

• I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Comedy
  • Before
  • Material

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Me
  • Easy
  • Cat

• Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Community
  • Place
  • Library

• If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Want
  • Me
  • Him

• Being an actor does make you aware of your age.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Age
  • You
  • Actor

• New York is the place that made my and other artists' dreams come true by giving us a chance to realise our ideas and concepts. It was a great place for making a presentation of artistic creation.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Great
  • True
  • Giving

• I am always excited about playing in front of live audiences because I really enjoy it, for the most part.

  

  Valerie June
  • Enjoy
  • Playing
  • Audiences

• I never used needles, but I was into heroin, cocaine – those are the things I’ll never touch again.

  

  Corey Feldman
  • Touch
  • Heroin
  • Needles

• But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.

  

  Preston Brooks
  • Time
  • Country
  • History

• I was really lucky to have been raised in this really powerful matriarchy where my dad was around, but I was with my mom and my grandma most of the time. They were heavy influences on me. My mother has a career in technology; my grandma sold real estate.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Time
  • Real
  • Mother

• I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • History
  • Technology
  • Film