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Tim Ferriss Quotes

I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.

Tim Ferriss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 20, 1977

Topics

Home History Eyes School Eye Look

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

Jeremy Northam

Truth Heart Job Kind Storytelling

The contextual age means we're going to have to go to war on noise.

Robert Scoble

Age War Go Noise Going Means

You don't want to vilify your ego.

Jeff Bridges

Ego You Want Your Vilify

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Jean Genet

Name Violence Lying Idle Boldness

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.

Stephanie Herseth

Problem Oil Fix Must Consumers

I never dreamed to win a Grand Slam. It was never a dream because, for me, it was way too far.

Stan Wawrinka

Me Win Dream Way Never Because

I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.

Shinsuke Nakamura

Love Story Wrestling Audience I Love

After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

Tom Stoppard

Eye Pen Hand Years Line Out

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Robert Browning

Age Youth Crystal Out Dew Finds

If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.

Michael Owen

Good Goals Football Game You Look

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

Louis Leakey

End Long Back Africa Going Last

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

Donna Tartt

Rain Water I Am Detail Writing Leaf