Alan Furst Quotes
If you're a writer, you're always working.
Alan Furst
Quotes to Explore
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
Mahmoud Darwish
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
Ze Frank
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
Jacob Epstein
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I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.
Olivier Theyskens
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Given the divisiveness and pain that have accompanied several state religious freedom laws, I approach attempts at legislating religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws with great sensitivity and care.
Gary Johnson
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People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that.
Damien Hirst
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
Ibrahim Babangida
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I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
Warren Spector
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I'm very serious about acting.
Victor Garber
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In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived with this autoimmune disease for 14 years, primarily confined to her mother's farm, Andalusia, in Milledgeville, Ga.
Floyd Skloot
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I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
Barbara Steele
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Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
Victor Davis Hanson
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I will say that I wasn't susceptible to Tony Robbins-like pitches, even as a younger man.
Andy Kindler
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Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.
Bradley Cooper
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Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?
P. G. Wodehouse
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Thomas Carlyle
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If you're a writer, you're always working.
Alan Furst
