Amor Towles Quotes

I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that claim anymore.

Amor Towles

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• Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

  

  C. V. Raman
  • World
  • Work
  • Friend

• America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • War
  • Cold

• The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Wisdom

• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • College
  • Crazy
  • Weird

• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • May
  • Think

• In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Better
  • Songs
  • Exciting

• It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Career
  • Finish
  • Coach

• I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Couple
  • Got

• There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Done
  • Book
  • Feminist

• I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Choice

• A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • May
  • You

• Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Country
  • Me

• The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Care

• Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Work
  • Women
  • Everything

• Currently, differences remain in certain areas of the native API versus the BeOS API which make some things, even common things, not port correctly.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Differences
  • Versus
  • Correctly

• At the end of day, what matters most to God, what moves His heart, isn't our fancy words and impressive possessions - it's the condition of our hearts.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Heart
  • Words

• If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• I always thought of myself as being part of a family and sharing and, yes, leading, but not forcing people to do anything.

  

  Bill Gross
  • People
  • Family

• Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Life
  • Water
  • Sea

• I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that claim anymore.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Writing