Paul Auster Quotes

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.

Paul Auster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 3, 1947

Topics

NightVoiceEndSomeoneWrongThree

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don't like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

Jocko Willink

WorkSuccessResponsibilityYouUp

There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?

John Garfield

HomeMoneyRevolutionFarmingWhy

I know the rewards of focusing on innovation and outcomes as opposed to hours. I've been fortunate to work with brilliant entrepreneurs who didn't have years of experience, and yet they changed the world.

Maynard Webb

WorkInnovationExperienceWorld

There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives.

Robert Nozick

GoodSacrificePeopleIndividualOwn

I would not be unhappy were I the last cisgender male to play a female transgender on television.

Jeffrey Tambor

UnhappyTelevisionPlayTransgender

I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from very large families. So it always felt as if I had lots of siblings, though in the end I had to leave them and go home. I kind of got the best of both worlds as a kid.

Sophia Bush

FamilyFunnyHomeBestEndFriends

Not too many people in America know about me, but all of Europe knows about me.

Sun Ra

PeopleMeAmericaKnowEuropeKnows

If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

Sonny Terry

GoodYouAwayGotGetLot

Living in N.Y.C. has truly awakened me to the New York elite and their penchant for the city's self-described brilliant public transit system. I think it sucks... just like public transit always does.

Steven Crowder

New YorkCityMeThinkNewLiving

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

Brendon Burchard

LifeMindProcessYouMeditation

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

Arthur Wing Pinero

ImaginationFinancier

I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I'm funny, and I'm a good person.

Pink

WorkFunnyGoodTalentWork Hard

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