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Amor Towles Quotes

Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it were admirable, and so there's nostalgia for that: the behavior, the values, the cultural sensitivities.

Amor Towles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1964

Topics

Behavior You Values Nostalgia Want

I worked on 'USA Today' as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.

Jim Gaffigan

Today Hands Look Hand Something

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

Andrea Jung

Family Doing Marketing Understand

Here I sit, beneath the large window of a first-floor Georgian flat, exploring the corridors of my sordid imagination for comedic words of beauty.

Matt Roper

Beauty Imagination Words Window Here

Let's not forget that the Paralympics, just like the Olympics, are built on a rich history.

Stella Young

History Rich Forget Just Like Built

Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it's easy to lose your train of thought, working like that.

Steven Hall

Good Writing Thought End Lose Find

In the Gospels, we are reminded, 'The very hairs of your head are all numbered.' And your numbered hairs, like your numbered days, recede daily.

Steve Rushin

Daily Head Days Like Your Very

I'm like one of those dudes who organically have talent.

Tory Lanez

Talent Who Like Those Dudes

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

Toni Collette

Desert Brilliant Hard Being

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

Roger Babson

Look Way Up Our Flat Backs

It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything.

Robert T. Bakker

Everything Because Would Comet

There is a tradition in America of people in business not only commenting on the way the government is being run but doing something about it if they don't like it. In fact, they don't just rail about it: they go into government, like some of my ex-colleagues.

Lloyd Blankfein

Business Government People Doing Run

I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene.

Jonathan Levine

Song Movies Take Like Scene Really