Andre Aciman Quotes

I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.

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• I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Body

• I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • Man
  • Greatest

• We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Game
  • Best
  • Football

• You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Trying
  • Beginning

• American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.

  

  Os Guinness
  • People
  • American
  • Today

• I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
  • Hope
  • Emotional

• I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Life
  • Myself
  • I Can

• Shelter dogs are the most loving, wonderful, sweet pets in the world. They understand being rescued, loved, and protected. The hubs and I have 2 rescued 11-yr-old Pomeranians, who adore us.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • World
  • Sweet
  • Loved

• But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Earth
  • Down
  • Window

• Basically, my mother couldn't hold a tune and when I was a baby, a rather tactless baby, I would ask her not to sing... you can't get to sleep if someone is singing off key nearby.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Sleep
  • Singing

• Love stories thrive on hope.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Stories

• I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I think even when homeowners love their room, it's still a shock, because you left your house, went to sleep, came home and your room was dramatically and drastically different.

  

  Paige Davis
  • House
  • Sleep
  • Dramatically

• A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Movie
  • House
  • Alone

• A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Feeling

• I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Opinion

• You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.

  

  Wumen Huikai
  • Found
  • Disappear
  • Spirituality

• I flew on a plane the week after 9/11.

  

  Andre Aciman