Amor Towles Quotes
I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.
Amor Towles
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
Val McDermid
As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.
Tammy Duckworth
I've got a clear line between work and real life.
Ed Westwick
I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
Caio Fonseca
Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. Pritchett
I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.
Olga Korbut
When the Foundations of one's life are Cracked, Expect to see Shifting of Thoughts and Emotions.
J. M. Roberts
If I had to choose a motto for myself, I would take this one — pure, dure, sûre, Pure, hard, certain — in other words: unalterable. I would express by this the ideal of the Strong, that which nothing brings down, nothing corrupts, nothing changes; those on whom one can count, because their life is order and fidelity, in accord with the eternal.
Savitri Devi
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati Roy
I am a liberal. I want everyone to be well.
Diego Della Valle
Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.
Sam Tsui
I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.
Amor Towles
