Alan Furst Quotes
For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
Alan Furst
Quotes to Explore
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immanuel Kant
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
Zach Galifianakis
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
Dan Quinn
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
Daniel Barenboim
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
Warren Buffett
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
Karen Handel
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I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meaning than I thought, and perfectly valid, given the words that exist.' So part of what makes a song really good is that people take in different meanings, and they apply them, and they might be more powerful than the ones I'm thinking.
Paul Simon
Simon & Garfunkel
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
D. A. Pennebaker
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remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.
Lucille Ball
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The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.
Lauren Groff
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For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
Alan Furst
