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Andre Maurois Quotes

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: July 26, 1885 - October 9, 1967

Topics

Age Stand Artist Go Out Against

I still sing, because that's my true calling. This basketball thing is only for, what, I think another year or so. And then I think I'm gonna switch over to my singing career.

Basketball Singing Think Year Career

I think people seem to want to read pieces that are shorter but not as short as the pieces they can read in small bites on the Internet. It may be that the sort of long essays are hitting a sweet spot between the tiny morsels online and the full-length book.

People Sweet Small Book Think Short

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

Step First Step First Realistic Who

I actually have my first iPhone deformity because it sits on my pinky, and now my bone actually dips in where my cellphone sits.

Now First iPhone Bone Where Because

Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American.

Family Freedom Health Best Drive

The worst situation with radiation escaping is if you are downwind from it. You could virtually be on one side and not affected by the radiation. If you're on the other side and you're downwind from it, you are going to be affected.

You Situation Worst Side Going

The media believes that what Obama was gonna do when he took over, go dictator immediately, that was what this country needs, finally central government running everything.

Government Media Country Go Over He

In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters.

Past Always Quirky In The Past Drawn

In Czechoslovakia, we consider Kafka a very funny man. A humorist.

Funny Man Consider Very Humorist

Rock formations and their layers of texture and color have been a strong inspiration, as well as the landscapes of Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada and the Rainbow Mountains in China.

Fire Mountains Rainbow Color Strong

Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it.

Leap Discomfort Spotlight Seem Odd

In Michigan, in the mid-'80s, the unemployment rate goes way up because a lot of factories shut down. And then, the mid-2000s, to pick a date, the unemployment rate in Michigan isn't that much higher than in the rest of the country. But the main way that happened is people moved.

Austan Goolsbee

People Rest Down Country Way Up

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