Orhan Pamuk Quotes

I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

Orhan Pamuk

• Anger
• Paint
• Someone

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Soul
  • Growth
  • Someone

• I'm not keeping track, but the record is there for someone to break.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Record
  • Break
  • Someone

• If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • Feels
  • For Her

• Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Think
  • You
  • Someone

• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Control
  • Passion
  • Anger

• Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Like
  • Anger

• As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • World
  • Different
  • You

• To be rude to someone is not my nature.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Nature
  • Someone
  • Rude

• Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.

  

  Mahavira
  • Someone
  • His
  • Livelihood

• If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Accept
  • Someone

• Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Words
  • Speak
  • Paint

• A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • High
  • Looks
  • Someone

• I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Say
  • Someone

• Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Men
  • Different
  • Emotional

• Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Giving
  • Honesty

• I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Trying
  • History
  • Pretty

• Often, overeating is a way to punish yourself for the anger and resentment you're feeling - either at yourself or someone else.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Way
  • Feeling
  • Yourself

• I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Live
  • Me
  • Someone

• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Me
  • Child
  • Paint

• I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

  

  Man Ray
  • Wish
  • Existence
  • Paint

• I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.

  

  Will Forte
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Advantage

• There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Age
  • Respect
  • Youth

• I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Life
  • Dying

• I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Anger
  • Paint
  • Someone