Alan Furst Quotes

I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.

Alan Furst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DailyMeWorldLandMoreNever

There's already a marriage clock, a career clock, a biological clock. Sometimes being a woman feels like standing in the lobby of a hotel, looking at the dials depicting every time zone in the world behind the front desk - except they all apply to you, and all at once.

Sloane Crosley

MarriageTimeWomanWorldLooking

I grew up in a few houses because my dad was a builder, so we used to build and sell quite a lot.

Louise Nurding

BuildUpUsedBecauseSellHouses

Observation is an old man's memory.

Jonathan Swift

ManMemoryObservationOld

All my friends were choosing university courses, but I had no interest in anything other than acting, so I applied to go to RADA.

Jonas Armstrong

FriendsActingGoAnythingInterest

Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.

Chris Anderson

WorldFreeGiftYouKnowAbundance

I've never put my hands on a woman, physically, ever.

Columbus Short

WomanHandsNeverEverPhysically

So many girls and guys want to find a girlfriend and settle down. But it's fun to be single.

Brody Jenner

FunFindDownWantSettleSingle

Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

Antonio Damasio

SelfBetterUnexpectedFlexibleMore

Ryan Reynolds was my childhood crush. His name is all over the walls of my room. I actually Photoshopped myself into a picture with him my freshman year of high school.

Brianna Hildebrand

MyselfChildhoodWallsSchoolName

I am still married, yes - no children. I have Benzo, though; he's my dog, a Lhasa apso.

Archie Panjabi

DogChildrenI AmYesStillHe

Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want a worldwide income tax and who put Syria and Iran on their Human Rights Committee.

Arthur L. Herman

ControlInternetDrivingRemember

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Arthur Schopenhauer

BrainBodyKindMayWhoOrganism

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