Andre Aciman Quotes

You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

Andre Aciman

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• It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • People
  • Women
  • Hope

• You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Thought
  • My Life

• I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Football
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Good
  • Find
  • Difficult

• I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Action
  • Easy
  • Suspense

• You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Happy
  • Campers

• Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiskey in there, too. After the show, I hang out at merch meeting people and signing things. After that, I usually try to see friends in whatever city we're in, or if I'm super beat, listen to a podcast and pass out.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Purpose
  • Hollywood
  • Soup

• Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Defense
  • Million
  • Homeland

• Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Important
  • Listening

• I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Remember
  • Big
  • Meeting

• You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Spiritual

• I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • People
  • Want
  • Words

• Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Truth
  • True
  • Knowledge

• To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Democracy

• When I draw horizontalsyou see this big plane and you have certain feelings likeyou're expanding over the planeAnything can be painted without representation

  

  Agnes Martin

• When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Work

• Money is a huge issue for manic depressives. Sometimes the problem is not nearly on the same scale as it has been for me, but nonetheless, it's difficult to deal with. Many get themselves into debt that can take years to clear up, write bad cheques, shoplift and borrow huge amounts from family and friends.

  

  Andy Behrman
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• About the time you might start to think that science fiction - the real stuff, not the species of fantasy that goes under the name - is really dead, along comes a story by Cory Doctorow.

  

  Lois Tilton
  • Time
  • Real
  • Science

• Respect Mother Earth and her giving ways or trade away our children's days.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Days

• I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaolin kung fu teacher, but he also taught tai chi, Chinese medicine, brush painting - he was adept at all facets of Chinese culture.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Culture
  • Teacher
  • Painting

• You cannot understand what it means to be poor until you have suffered it.

  

  Andre Aciman