Anthony Doerr Quotes

The world is so fundamentally interesting that it makes me fall in love with it a dozen times a day.

Anthony Doerr

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• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Think
  • Act
  • Tyranny

• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • New York
  • Employees

• All the terrorists are basically migrants.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Terrorists
  • Basically

• I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

  

  B. B. King
  • Singer
  • Blues
  • Kept

• My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Remember

• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • God
  • Know
  • Things

• Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Enemy
  • Your
  • Deceive

• Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Rich
  • Will

• I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Study
  • Too Much
  • Cricket

• I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Power
  • Sky
  • Stars

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Action
  • Hero

• Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Education
  • Support
  • Learning

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Me
  • Very

• The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Guitar

• One of the defense mechanisms I have for the difficulties in the business, one of which is rejection, is that if I do the work, I go in, and I'm prepared and I audition and they don't hire me, I'm always just amazed, thinking, 'Wow! For that money, they could've had Bruce McGill, and they didn't take me? I just think that's amazing.'

  

  Bruce McGill
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Money

• Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

  

  Maxim Gorky
  • Why
  • Friend

• If they love you, they will do what you wish,but only WHEN they want to. If they fear you, they will do what you wish EXACTLY when you wish. So, is it better to love or fear you?

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Wish

• I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • Thinking
  • Done

• The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad.

  

  John Wozniak
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• The world is so fundamentally interesting that it makes me fall in love with it a dozen times a day.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Fall