Alan Furst Quotes

Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.

Alan Furst

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• Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Dark
  • Door
  • Shadow

• I'm truly blessed with great genes. I've never done anything drastic in my life, and I can proudly say I haven't tried any of those crazy fad diets, either. I believe in eating right and living healthy. Plus, I love going to the gym, and I enjoy yoga because it streamlines your body.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Blessed

• Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Work
  • Education

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Good
  • God
  • Deep

• Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Good
  • Wish
  • Service

• My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Music
  • Light
  • Day

• I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.

  

  Maluma
  • Time
  • Good
  • Heart

• I liked 'Diff'rent Strokes' up until about the last three or four years. I was bored.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Up
  • Bored
  • Three

• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I've heard expressions like, 'Are you good in bed?' What does that even mean? For me, good in bed means sleeping seven hours. Undisturbed! If I get eight hours, that means I'm amazing!

  

  Karan Johar
  • Good
  • Amazing
  • Expressions

• Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Good
  • Story
  • Director

• I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Job
  • End

• He who stops being better stops being good.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Good
  • Better
  • Being

• Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Music
  • Fashion

• A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Good
  • Me
  • Rest

• The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Relationship
  • Painting

• I'd love to play for Spurs and play at White Hart Lane. It won't be easy, and I'll have fight for my place in the team, but I'll work hard to do that.

  

  Dele Alli
  • Work
  • Team

• I spent the first half of my career very much in the closet professionally. I was concerned that I wouldn’t be seen as working hard and achieving things, and I always wanted a big and robust career in media.

  

  Sarah Kate Ellis
  • Want
  • Career
  • Media

• Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.

  

  Diego Luna

• Liberalism is a most important by-product of Rationalism, and its origins and ideology must be clearly shown.

  

  Francis Parker Yockey
  • Important

• Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Life
  • Good
  • Dark