Nicole Krauss Quotes

I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself to imagine what mine look like at all. My sense of them comes from the inside. They remain, by necessity, physically vague in my mind.

Nicole Krauss

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 18, 1974

Topics

MyselfWalkMindSomeoneLookSmell

I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.

Jessica Alba

ChemistryVinegarSexualCould

I was raised Catholic, and I remember in all the pamphlets and pictures we'd look at, Jesus was basically blonde with blue eyes. He kind of looked like Jared Leto.

Joel Edgerton

EyesBlueBlondeRememberLookKind

Well, I'm not excusing the fact that planning and preparedness was not where it should be. We've known for 20 years about this hurricane, this possibility of this kind of hurricane.

Michael Chertoff

PlanningKindYearsWhereWellFact

One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.

Roone Arledge

WorkYourselfPeopleYouSaidWant

I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.

Mikhail Gorbachev

PoliticsGovernmentPeopleDemocracy

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'

Joss Whedon

LovePastLove IsMatureWayReal

Democracy will not come to Mexico as the result of supposedly optimal policies prescribed by self-appointed saviors bent on economic stabilization.

Denise Dresser

DemocracyResultWillMexicoCome

I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor? Too dirty! Air-hostess? Maybe not! Then someone gave me a book on Roger Vivier, and, cheri, instantly I knew that was it!

Christian Louboutin

MeDoctorBookThoughtSomeoneShoe

I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down.

Brett Young

GoodTimeExpectationsDownSay

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Paul Tournier

BusinessWinThinkSooner Or Later

At first, I was only interested in music, but I spent so much time in the clubs and seeing fashions change. So naturally, I developed an interest in it.

Tiesto

ChangeMusicTimeSeeingFirstOnly

In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.

Nina Fedoroff

EvolutionMoreGenesLastAbleWays

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