Alan Furst Quotes

I've always liked lost, old New York.

Alan Furst

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• There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Cool

• All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Man
  • Respect

• House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Game
  • House
  • Film

• I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Earth
  • Me

• If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • You
  • Wealth
  • Percent

• There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Thought
  • Nothing
  • Absence

• Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Home
  • Man
  • Wisdom

• I'm not really into weight training.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Training
  • Really
  • Weight

• Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Mean
  • Show
  • Just Because

• It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Good
  • Great
  • Me

• You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Successful

• It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • You
  • Someone
  • Ready

• Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Today
  • Poor

• As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Nature
  • Childhood
  • Transformation

• I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Parents
  • Hate
  • Embarrassed

• Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • End
  • Research
  • Determination

• The word 'change' has been abused so many times.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Change
  • Word
  • Times

• Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Long
  • Understand

• I don't consider myself to be a quote-unquote 'good girl'. I'm not prim and proper and polite. I'm very honest, and I love talking about sex, or people's deviances. I love psychology. I like listening to or talking about any personality traits that are unusual. That's what I like about acting.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • People
  • Good
  • Girl

• I have learned that in every circumstance that comes my way, I can choose to respond in one of two ways: I can whine or I can worship! And I can't worship without giving thanks. It just isn't possible. When we choose the pathway of worship and giving thanks, especially in the midst of difficult circumstances, there is a fragrance, a radiance, that issues forth out of our lives to bless the Lord and others.

  

  Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
  • Giving
  • Choose
  • Thanks

• The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Understanding
  • Fire
  • Abuse

• The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

  

  Friedrich Durrenmatt
  • Good
  • Art

• Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Up
  • Done
  • Strong

• I've always liked lost, old New York.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Lost