Alan Hollinghurst Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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I don't watch a lot of T.V. I only watch things via Netflix, so I only watch the things that I'm choosing to watch.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
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I've always been able to put things in perspective.
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I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.
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I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.
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I have no skills. I'm bad at most things.
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When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
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I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.
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Some things in literature are inexplicable.
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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
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In so many things, growth comes from adversity.
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The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.
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Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]
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...at this point the self has obviously outworn its function; it is no longer needed or useful, and life can go on without it. we are ready to move on, to go beyond the self, beyond even its most intimate union with God, and this is where we enter yet another new life- a life best categorized, perhaps, as a life without a self.
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I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.
