Paul Auster Quotes

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.

Paul Auster

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ArtAppreciationPeopleThinkBetter

One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.'

John Burnside

FatherMyselfDayBookTalkingNext

We worked with David Thibodeau, who wrote a book about Waco, on which the series is based. He's one of the nine survivors.

Andrea Riseborough

BookWhoNineHeAboutWrote

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

MeYouTellLike

I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields.

Tony Randall

HopeThinkThoughtAppearancesShow

I do have this belief that we all have a chance to be great, beautiful people based on how we are raised and our surroundings.

Rod Lurie

BeautifulGreatPeopleChanceBelief

I think there's a point at which you know how you dress isn't going to affect how much you do in life.

Diane Sawyer

LifeDressThinkYouKnowGoing

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.

Drew Barrymore

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I used to be a print reporter.

Bob Schieffer

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Charles Finney, the great 19th-century revivalist and evangelical, would have had a hard time preaching a revival in America today. Finney's brand of evangelical fervour, called the 'new measures,' emphasised saving souls and reviving worship by incorporating elements of personal testimony and music into church services.

Anthea Butler

MusicTodayGreatTimeBrandChurch

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Arthur Koestler

DiscoveryMoreOriginalObvious

One of the things I do in banking committees is put pressure on them, and one of the other things I do is through my website, through outside pressure, and I ask people to come and help us join that fight where we can get people outside to keep putting the pressure on the Senate to make sure there are no compromises and weakening of Dodd-Frank.

Sherrod Brown

FightPeoplePressureHelpWebsite

When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

Niklas Zennstrom

GoodMusicPeopleThinkThoughtNow

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