André Aciman Quotes

All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

André Aciman

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• There has to be a consensus and this is a report, a set of circumstances, that the international community simply cannot ignore.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Community
  • Circumstances
  • Ignore

• A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Business
  • Guy
  • Mentor

• You can only shoot small movies and documentaries for so long if you want to have a family that you support; eventually, you need to get let into the big leagues.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Long
  • Family
  • Small

• If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Road
  • Ruin
  • Idle

• Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Different
  • Age
  • Terrible

• You can become a Communist only when you enrich your mind with a knowledge of all the treasures created by mankind.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Mind
  • Mankind
  • Communist

• How do I work? I grope.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Work
  • Grope

• Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Way
  • Happiness
  • Breath

• But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was fading out of her, the stars burning so extravagantly those nights that anyone could tell you they would never last.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Summer
  • Ocean
  • Stars

• Hate speech is difficult to define. There's a reason why it's not really done. additionally, we are not the thought police. It's not the role of a private company to decide what people can and cannot say.

  

  Steve Huffman
  • People
  • Say
  • Decide

• I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some say when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on, I shall have less to say, But I shall be none.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Voice
  • Choice
  • Clouds

• I thought it out this very day, Noon upon the clock, A man may put pretence away Who leans upon a stick, May sing, and sing until he drop, Whether to maid or hag.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Clock
  • Aging

• ...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Approach
  • Reach
  • Doubtful

• All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

  

  André Aciman
  • Remains
  • Remembrance
  • Dreammaking