Alan Furst My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren’t there to be read. And I think that was true of me. – Alan Furst Books Quotes Read Quotes Theory Quotes TRUE Quotes Write Quotes Writers Quotes When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don’t like to be deflected by acrobatics. I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.
Paul Simon I don’t believe what the papers are saying They’re just out to capture my dime, Exaggerating this, exaggerating that. – Paul Simon
GodWilliam Law If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead. – William Law
Brian Shaw You don’t need a gym to develop real strength. Just get an empty keg of beer and fill it with sand or water and simply pick it up, carry it in your back yard, flip it, anything just to get moving for as little as 15 minutes. – Brian Shaw
Kei Nishikori I feel a lot of confidence from that memory, playing final first time in Grand Slam. But also I always think that I could play a little better in a final. I lost straight sets. I didn’t do well. – Kei Nishikori
Anton Corbijn I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It’s a metropolis, so it’s representative of Holland, but only a part of it – you know, it’s more extreme, there’s more happening, it’s more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is. – Anton Corbijn
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