Orhan Pamuk Quotes
My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm happy to fight anybody.
-
I'm not the type of person that is forced.
-
It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.
-
My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.
-
Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
-
Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
-
I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
-
The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
-
Digital India is the only way for citizen empowerment, which can bring government transparency and accountability to citizens.
-
Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
-
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
-
Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.
-
My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
-
The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
-
Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
-
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
-
I shop more than most women.
-
I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.
-
If you're saying that Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu got fired up, he's been fired up repeatedly during the course of my presidency, around the Iran deal and around our consistent objection to settlements.
-
You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.
-
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
-
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
-
My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.
-
My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
