Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

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Andrew Sean Greer

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• No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.

  

  Aaron Brown
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Wants

• I'm very candid.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Very
  • Candid

• The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Opinion
  • Personal
  • Left

• I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Want
  • Face
  • France

• I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Street
  • Route
  • Weirdo

• The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Mind
  • American
  • Landscape

• Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Action

• I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Love
  • Energy
  • Place

• I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don't really try to act like a rich person, so I don't know what they buy. I didn't really like the stuff I saw, so I'm gonna stick with my humble lifestyle and just keep working out.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Rich
  • Humble

• An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

  

  Nance O'Neil
  • Art
  • She
  • True

• After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Religious

• A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.

  

  Olin Miller
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Lie

• Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

  

  Carl Schurz
  • Destiny
  • Desert

• Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Hunting

• One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Success
  • Wife
  • Worry

• He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Good

• In my heart she's my kind of girl.

  

  Leslie Bricusse
  • Heart
  • She
  • Girl

• 'Yo' waddup; this is Snoop D-O-Double-G sayin' stop the violence, drop the guns, and increase the peace.'

  

  Snoop Dogg
  • Peace
  • Stop
  • Violence

• When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

  

  Philip Emeagwali
  • Age
  • Education
  • College

• If you walk into the front hallway of the CIA, you will see, on your left, a statue of William 'Wild Bill' Donovan. Bill Donovan was the person who created the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, which was America's spy agency during World War II and then kind of morphed into what's now the CIA.

  

  David Ignatius
  • World
  • America
  • War

• They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Relationship

• No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Deliver
  • Directs
  • Political System

• Can you call and thank reviewers? I always wondered that.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer