Andre Aciman Quotes

Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.

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• I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Art

• People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• I have never had personal debt and never will.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Never
  • Personal
  • Debt

• I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Long
  • Friend

• Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Respect
  • Responsibility

• I am definitely a person of color.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Person
  • Color

• I actually got an initial sense of how big 'Outlander' was going to be on Twitter. We're all on there to help promote the show and also interact with the fans.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Help
  • Fans
  • Twitter

• If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Change
  • Woman
  • Shoes

• One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Everyone
  • British
  • Dessert

• I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Always
  • Things
  • Magazines

• Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Man
  • Enough
  • Nothing

• Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Facts
  • Fuel
  • Conservation

• The thing about death is that it's honest.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Death
  • Honest
  • About

• Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Like
  • Individuals
  • Punished

• Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Never
  • Will
  • Practical

• When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Truth
  • Party
  • Powerful

• Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Great

• Montaigne the I-sayer. 'I' as space, not as position.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Space

• As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.

  

  Anthony Davis
  • Thinking
  • Game
  • Feeling

• Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Important
  • Political
  • Responsibility

• Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I was going home for Christmas, and I have a collection of thousands of comics. I was surprised to see that 90% of them were Marvel. So, I wanted to go through my collection and start there.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Home
  • Book
  • Christmas

• The real crisis of worship today is not that the preaching is paltry or that it's too drafty in church. It is that people have no sense of the presence of God, and if they have no sense of His presence, how can they be moved to express the deepest feelings of their souls to honor, revere, worship, and glorify God?

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • God
  • Real

• People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are incredibly down-to-earth people who worked really hard to raise us in a way that was health.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • Parents
  • Earth

• Exiles see double, feel double, are double. When exiles see one place, they're also seeing - or looking for - another behind it.

  

  Andre Aciman