Antonio Munoz Molina Quotes

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

Antonio Munoz Molina

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• It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Attention

• Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Always
  • Win

• Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • God
  • Man
  • Almighty

• I've always danced. I've always been around it.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Always
  • Been
  • Around

• I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Work
  • Home
  • Sure

• Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Me
  • Control
  • Marriage

• They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.

  

  Adam Petty
  • Up
  • Really
  • Line

• In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Important
  • Nature
  • You

• I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Work
  • Long
  • Talent

• Prudence is … more than mere shrewdness. If not tied down to the noble and just ends that one has been habituated to love, the soul's native power of cleverness can lead to the utmost knavery.

  

  Leon Kass
  • Power
  • Soul

• I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.

  

  Lucy Larcom
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Growing

• Il est sage de ne mettre ni crainte, ni espérance dans l’avenir incertain.

  

  Anatole France

• Si no has de cambiar de ruta, ¿por qué has de cambiar de guía?

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Financial

• Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Nature
  • Value
  • Leaving

• Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

  

  Christo
  • People

• The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.

  

  Anne-Marie Slaughter
  • Pride
  • Achievement
  • Celebration

• I think every guy that hits his 40s has a little bit of a wake-up call and wants to just keep things real, as they say, and just to push yourself.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Up
  • Real
  • Guy

• To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Giving

• If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.

  

  Judah Friedlander
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Confident

• I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support.

  

  Marie Curie
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Real

• However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • May
  • Habit
  • Impossible

• A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

  

  Antonio Munoz Molina