Alan Furst Quotes
When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don't like to be deflected by acrobatics.
Quotes to Explore
-
'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
-
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
-
Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you commit to a price long before you know if they're worth it.
-
Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.
-
I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
-
'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
-
My mom took me to a Dolly Parton concert when I was 3.
-
I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
-
You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
-
Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.
-
We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There's a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise couldn't or wouldn't endorse, just as being not consistent with what the NBA would want or, probably, what we would even want, too.
-
I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times.
-
I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.
-
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
-
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
-
I actually had a buzz cut all the way to my junior year in college. I would just buzz my head with a one-guard all over, and then I started growing it out. When I had Tommy John, that was the last time it was buzzed. I've grown it ever since then.
-
In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, had, theoretically at least, descended upon him.
-
You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.
-
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
-
The International Brigades provided a shock force while the Republic trained and organized an army from an assemblage of individuals. The Spanish people knew they were not fighting alone.
-
I was growing up in Hyesan, right by the closest North Korea-China border. China was just across the river: you could see across. So I was curious. On the river, on both sides, you have houses, then mountains. I wanted to know what was on the other side of the Chinese mountains.
-
I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.
-
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
-
When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don't like to be deflected by acrobatics.
