Amor Towles Quotes

I've always loved reading manifestos. Collectively, they represent a triumph of style.

Amor Towles

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• No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Time
  • God
  • Man

• If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Free
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Game
  • Tough
  • Away

• A lasting architecture has to have roots.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Architecture
  • Roots
  • Lasting

• Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • People
  • Violence
  • Hearts

• The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
  • Me
  • Clothes
  • Sharing

• I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Soccer
  • Fan
  • Sure

• So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Success

• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Time
  • Own
  • Cinema

• The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • War
  • Wedding
  • Queen

• My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Career
  • Dad
  • Best

• Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Animals
  • Marine

• But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Think
  • Question

• For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Different
  • Same
  • Clothes

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Love
  • Girl
  • I Love

• Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Good
  • House
  • Song

• Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Writing
  • Red
  • Act

• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Long
  • Fun
  • Words

• Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Political
  • Correctness

• If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

  

  Fred Frith Aksak Maboul

• A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it, there's a great deal that's communicated about who this person is and what their life experiences have been.

  

  Chuck Close
  • Life
  • Great
  • Attention

• I've always loved reading manifestos. Collectively, they represent a triumph of style.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Reading
  • Style