Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: spanish
  • Birth: September 25, 1964

Topics

HistoryWomanManMePresentLiving

'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

TheatreHatefulLikeEight

The last time I played video games was 'Space Invaders.'

John Hillcoat

TimeSpaceVideo GamesGamesLast

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Anna Pavlova

SuccessHappinessMomentButterfly

This country has so much wealth and so much poverty, and that seemed wrong to me. 'Evicted' was my Ph.D. dissertation.

Matthew Desmond

MePovertyWealthCountryWrong

I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.

Anna Kournikova

DatingKissYouCountryWantWrite

Adam Scott sings like a bird... He's so bad. He's so bad.

Jean-Marc Vallee

BirdBadLikeHeAdamSings

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

Spider Robinson

StupidityNeverMaliceExplained

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

Romola Garai

PassionCharacterIdeasYouPossible

I yearn for the day when we'll return to the foundational value that makes this country great.

Mike Gallagher

GreatDayValueCountryReturn

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

Louis C. K.

PeopleDirectionWeirdComedyGone

To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.

Louis Tomlinson

BestWorldThinkRole ModelImmature

One year, we tried to deep-fry a turkey. It must have been really humid outside, because the temperature of the oil got thrown off. It ended up being slow-cooked in oil - black on the outside and raw on the inside.

Chrissy Teigen

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