Orhan Pamuk Quotes

When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

Orhan Pamuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: June 7, 1952

Topics

HappinessI AmHappyWorldEndSame

When I started, there weren't any arenas. There was football fields, but they would only hold three or four or five hundred people at the most... We played a lot of high school auditoriums and things like that - a lot of churches... but boy, it has changed.

Jim Ed Brown

FootballSchoolPeopleHigh School

I always have a problem playing text-heavy games. I'm a slow reader. I don't speak English well. As a kid in China, trying to play these games, I just wanted the text to go away.

Jenova Chen

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Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

Robert Hughes

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I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

Andy Warhol

BeautifulArtThinkWantLandOwn

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

Michael Gove

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I want to retire from boxing by the time I am 25 or 26 and be a legend by that age.

Amir Khan

AgeTimeI AmLegendBoxingWant

I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I designed my office around it. I've written everything I've ever written at this desk.

Steve Berry

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The real world has always been far more exciting and funny and dangerous to me than anything somebody could conjure up sitting in front of a computer.

Tony Scott

FunnyMeWorldDangerousSittingUp

Rather than do his job and agree to take responsible measures to get our government's finances in order, President Obama continues playing on the emotions and fears of the American people.

Tom Graves

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I can't cook.

Rita Ora

Cook

I did a salad, but I didn't do a garden.

Roberto Burle Marx

GardenSaladDid

Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!

Ruben Dario

SpringSweetSongHoneyWillSing

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