Daniel Kehlmann Quotes

English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.

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• We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

  

  Dale Archer
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

  

  Tablo
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • True
  • Self
  • Consequences

• But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Think
  • Question

• I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Never
  • Emotion
  • Pity

• There are a whole host of psychological phenomenon humans have developed to protect ourselves from the sting of failure, from holding ourselves less accountable for our failures than we do other people, to letting our fear paralyze us and keep us from even trying.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fear

• I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Want
  • Better
  • Acting

• It's hard to be serious in life.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Serious
  • Hard

• I was a candidate in 1991. There was virtually a wave for Ram Mandir. In 1989 also, there was a wave - anti-Congress wave.

  

  Harish Rawat
  • Wave
  • Candidate
  • Virtually

• So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Marriage

• The worst thing about being on the road is all you want to do when you get home is to stay home, but as soon as you get back, all the wife wants to do is go out because she's been stuck home all the time you've been stuck on the road.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Home
  • She

• A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Life
  • High
  • Sports

• Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • American
  • College
  • Military

• My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Great
  • Love
  • America

• The prestige of the international financial institutions rates less than zero.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Financial
  • Institutions

• When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Children
  • Laughter

• Billy asked him if such men as had stole his eyes were only products of the war but the blind man said that since war itself was their very doing that could hardly be the case.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Men
  • War
  • Eyes

• People ask me if I ever thought of writing a children's book. I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of who you're directing the story to is anathema to me, because, in my view, fiction is freedom and any restraints on that are intolerable.

  

  Martin Amis
  • People
  • Writing
  • Children

• If you have time to chatter, Read books. If you have time to read, Walk into mountain, desert and ocean. If you have time to walk, Sing songs and dance. If you have time to dance, Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot.

  

  Nanao Sakaki
  • Time
  • Book
  • Happy

• If you were given a book with the story of your life, would you read the end?

  

  Natasha Friend
  • Life
  • Book
  • Read

• The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • American

• It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Believe
  • May

• English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.

  

  Daniel Kehlmann
  • Book
  • Tone
  • Get Away