Andre Aciman Quotes

'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.

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• Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Life
  • Black
  • Culture

• We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Think
  • Want
  • Cloud

• It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Balance
  • Friendship
  • Without

• A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Truth
  • Nature

• Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Win
  • Tennis

• I've done some good work and some not-good work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Good
  • Why
  • Without

• The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Home
  • Political
  • English

• I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Hate
  • Food
  • Animals

• I am the candidate of tax cuts, repealing Obamacare, repealing Dodd-Frank, letting the markets work, coming up with patient-and-doctor-centered healthcare solutions instead of more big government - and just generally getting government off the backs of small businesses.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Up
  • Work
  • Small

• Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

  

  Nas
  • Love
  • May
  • Happy

• I'm really, really emotional.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Emotional
  • Really

• Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• You can't separate a house from a family. It's a living, breathing home.

  

  Leonard Lauder
  • Family
  • Home
  • House

• What I have tried to show is that the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity - that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is no intention in the universe.

  

  Jacques Monod
  • Universe
  • Attitude

• Films like 'Namo Venkateshaya' give immense satisfaction, happiness, and makes us feel blessed, and so I consider it the best film in my career.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Career
  • Blessed

• I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Drawing
  • Results
  • Experiences

• I'm stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I'm alone. Because in France, they're like, 'No, you're not like us, you're not a French guy.' And in America, they're like, 'You're not like us.' I'm really alone in my little thing.

  

  Louis Leterrier
  • America
  • Guy
  • Small

• One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Things
  • Sea
  • Chekhov

• 'Almost' is about uncertainty soon to be dismissed but not quite dispelled. 'Almost' is about revelation to come but not entirely promised.

  

  Andre Aciman