Alan Furst Quotes

I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.

Alan Furst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 20, 1941

Topics

TimePeopleWriteYearsJustBooks

And at that point, I think we all realized it was something tremendously tragic, probably a terrorist attack, and the next step was to go down to our command center and get things going.

Robert Mueller

StepThinkDownGoPointGoing

The day before I work, I don't like to even look at the script and let whatever happens happen on the set. But I do prepare a lot. I'm a big believer in that.

Jeffrey Tambor

WorkDayLookPrepareWhateverBig

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

Steve Coogan

LikePaintings

I'm never going to sing the words, 'I want to shut down the club,' never, ever.

Sia

WordsDownWantNeverClubGoing

Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.

Simon Travaglia

KnowImportantMy OwnOwnPretty

If Donald Trump is our nominee, I don't think that he represents the best our party has to offer either in temperament or qualification, and I think he's the weakest candidate that is in the race at this point in terms of the general election, and that to nominate him is to give Hillary Clinton a much better chance of being president.

Trent Franks

BestChanceThinkBetterPartyRace

I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.

Tommy Shaw

WindBackAlwaysUpGoingStuck

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

Robert Fulghum

HumanExistenceCageKeepBars

I highly appreciate the work of Ed Woodward, the CEO of Manchester United.

Robin Van Persie

WorkAppreciateManchester UnitedCEO

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

Rupert Penry-Jones

MeMadParadisePlayAbleJack

Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

Mary Karr

PassionCommunityPoetrySuffering

There might never be another 'Crouching Tiger.' There might be something that's even better than 'Crouching Tiger.'

Michelle Yeoh

BetterTigerNeverSomethingEven

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