Anthony Doerr Quotes

Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people whom you could never meet. That's what got me interested in writing in the first place.

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• Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Powerful

• I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • People
  • Work
  • Running

• We played 'Girl in a Country Song' in front of Scott Borchetta, and he loved it.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Country
  • Song
  • Girl

• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Experience
  • Happy

• Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Quality

• Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Game

• Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • People
  • Believe
  • Character

• People die because they find living too painful.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Die
  • Living

• I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Home
  • Married

• One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• I don't think of myself as a gearhead or a motorcyclist. I'm not that young, and this is like another life of mine. But the people I know from that era think of me that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Life
  • Myself

• I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Life
  • Health
  • Exercise

• I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Read
  • Surprised

• When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Mind
  • America

• I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Live
  • School

• It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Remember
  • True

• I’ve known a lot of talented people but the people that really, really, achieve success – there is ambition, focus and drive behind it.

  

  Anna Sui
  • People
  • Success
  • Focus

• We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Respect

• I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn.

  

  Christine Quinn
  • Different

• I'll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I've always dreamed of a beach wedding.

  

  Nicole Appleton All Saints
  • Want
  • Way
  • Beach

• I want to be known as a guy who, regardless of circumstance, always gave 100 percent, always went the hardest and the smartest. Pray up, inspiration to God, put in what I get out.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Up
  • God
  • Guy

• Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people whom you could never meet. That's what got me interested in writing in the first place.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing