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Amor Towles Quotes

You can build a place that is beautiful, but nobody feels comfortable sitting in it, and the kids aren't allowed to go into many of the rooms. Or a place can look lived in, but it doesn't please the eye.

Amor Towles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1964

Topics

Beautiful Eye You Look Place Nobody

Nobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air.

Megan Mullally

Character Nobody Air Going Show Off

It is by these, the people, that I have been clothed with the high powers which they have seen fit to confide to their Chief Executive, and been charged with the solemn responsibility under which those powers are to be exercised.

John Tyler

Responsibility People High Seen Been

The Ozarks are old and worn mountains from the geological past.

Sue Hubbell

Past Mountains Old Geological Worn

Nest Thermostat owners like the carbon monoxide link. If Nest Protect's carbon monoxide alarm goes off, the Nest Thermostat automatically turns off the gas furnace.

Tony Fadell

Protect Nest Off Gas Like Alarm

Both Israel and America should acknowledge that scraps of information cannot serve as the basis for action against Iran, and they should find new criteria for such a decision.

Ronen Bergman

Decision Action America Information

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

Mary Archer

Good Time Prison You Say Will

When I moved to New York to act I was no good at working restaurants - hosting, waiting, bussing, dishwashing - I wasn't good at any aspect. But I did have a guitar. So I would sing 'Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard,' but you would only hear the chorus because the train comes by every 30 seconds.

Michael Weatherly

Good New York Waiting Me Guitar You

The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial.

Joyce Carol Oates

New York Enjoy New Review Books

I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.

Jose Manuel Barroso

Confidence Strong Institution Full

All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance.

Deborah Moggach

Life Live Roots Speak You Distance

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

Chris Lilley

Class Always Bottom Well Very

The crudest thing I've done as a teacher was to require students to write a national anthem for their country and sing it themselves.

Chris Van Allsburg

Teacher Country Done Write Students