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

• 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

• 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

• 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 want to re-establish the people's trust in the office of president.

  

  Andrej Kiska
  • People
  • Trust

• There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.

  

  James Caan

• In space for a short time, I think most people could survive that. If you're sending an average person who's healthy for a short period of time, I think that's quite doable.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • People
  • Time
  • Space

• The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in, and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter.

  

  Lee Ryan Blue
  • Time
  • Heart

• I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.

  

  Bill Kaulitz
  • Writing
  • Author
  • Mistakes

• It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • People

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

  

  Andre Aciman