Patrick Modiano Quotes

Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.

Patrick Modiano

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: July 30, 1945

Topics

SpaceBackFirstBreathLikeHow

I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and for the rest of my life I would be writing books and collecting royalties. Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published.

Jerry Spinelli

LifeMeWritingBookRestThought

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

John Locke

KnowledgeImprovementUnderstanding

The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources and government coffers.

Matt Cartwright

FamilyGovernmentWeatherLineOnly

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

Trey Parker

ThinkParentYouMoreGetKids

I always thought I'd buy my mother a house if I ever became successful - a big, beautiful house on the nicest street in town. It didn't exactly work out that way. I was still borrowing money from her in my 40s.

Tom Shales

WorkMotherBeautifulMoneyThought

People always ask me: 'Do you have black in you? Do you have Spanish in you?'

Rita Ora

PeopleMeBlackYouAskAlways

Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

Rosa Luxemburg

DemocracySmallBloodGuardWorking

I'm a family guy. I want to be home with my family, want to spend as much time with my family as I can.

Donald Driver

FamilyHomeTimeI CanWantGuy

Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector companies keep their books - because of the obligation cities and towns have taken upon themselves to provide health care for their retirees.

Clayton M. Christensen

HealthCityCareAmericaWayKeep

In this day and age of texts, Twitter, and Facebook, we are very rarely surprised by anything anymore - something always leaks out and gets spoiled.

Brad Goreski

AgeDayAlwaysOutAnythingSpoiled

I always say, 'Obama is my president - the president of the world.'

Brunello Cucinelli

WorldSayPresidentAlwaysObama

I am from the bush. The bush did not define me. I did not stay in the bush, but I never forgot where I came from.

Anthony Carmona

I AmMeNeverDefineWhereStay

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