Anthony Doerr Quotes

Indeed, every book on my shelves is a key to a little vault of memories.

Anthony Doerr

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• It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Today
  • Year

• I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.

  

  Ted Danson
  • World
  • Myself
  • View

• Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Help
  • Mission
  • Founders

• One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

  

  Tablo
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Family
  • Love
  • For Her

• Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Born
  • Being
  • Privilege

• I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.

  

  Rain
  • Food
  • Hamburgers
  • Fries

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Different
  • Thing
  • Girls

• I don't wanna sound pretentious talking about myself.

  

  Wale
  • Myself
  • Sound
  • Talking

• Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

  

  Jack Germond
  • Heart
  • True
  • Newspaper

• I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

  

  Carey Lowell
  • Up
  • Always
  • Clothes

• But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • Think
  • Question

• A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Up
  • Different
  • City

• You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • World
  • Kids
  • Think

• I thought it out this very day, Noon upon the clock, A man may put pretence away Who leans upon a stick, May sing, and sing until he drop, Whether to maid or hag.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Clock
  • Aging

• Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Art
  • May
  • Book

• A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Destiny
  • Hearts
  • Benevolent

• Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

  

  Richard Adams
  • Destroyed
  • Spoiled

• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Yoga
  • Union
  • Dimensions

• Indeed, every book on my shelves is a key to a little vault of memories.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Book
  • Memories