Alfred A. Knopf Quotes

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

Alfred A. Knopf

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• Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Friend

• You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
  • Idea
  • Vague

• I am a very reclusive, private person.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Person
  • Private
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• Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Safe
  • Turkey

• Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Lot
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• I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.

  

  Rain
  • Want
  • Rest
  • Movies

• We are all terminal.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Terminal

• I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Time
  • Important
  • Relationship

• In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Girl
  • Feel
  • Fat

• But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • History
  • Think
  • Know

• That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Beautiful
  • Pleasure
  • Once

• I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Know

• If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Power
  • Happy

• I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.

  

  Hakan Nesser
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• I am not allowing myself to get carried away.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Away
  • Carried

• If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Peace
  • Fight

• I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Time
  • Song
  • Day

• The people of the Sudan expect a lot from the institution of the presidency, and we should live up to their expectations.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• My mom works in funerals, and my dad works at Burger King.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • King

• I remember being in the Ontario Legislature and the Liberals yelling over at me about the fact that the dollar was rising, and that was bad for business, and didn't I realize that. And I thought, 'What are you talking about?' The value of the currency in part, large part, reflects the world's view of the state of our economy.

  

  Jim Flaherty
  • World
  • Business
  • Remember

• If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better.

  

  Daniel Okrent

• In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects. It seemed that direct communication with God was something exclusively for the ancients and uncivilized, while educated Westerner's access to God was mediated and controlled by the intelligentsia. Nobody wanted God in a box, just in a book.

  

  William P. Young
  • Book
  • Authority
  • Scripture

• I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

  

  John Cleese

• An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

  

  Alfred A. Knopf