Orhan Pamuk Quotes

If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.

Orhan Pamuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HopePowerArtPeopleStoryFeel

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

TruthMindKnowUnknownSeeClearly

The lesson of 2008 is that ultimately our markets are driven by confidence.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

ConfidenceLessonDrivenOurMarkets

There's nothing harder than going on TV and saying something that you don't believe. I don't do that anymore.

Stephanie Cutter

SayingBelieveYouNothingGoingTV

If you talk to any filmmaker, and if you said to them, 'I guarantee you x amount of money per month for the rest of your life, and it's not a big amount of money, but I can also guarantee that you will work continually, you will get to make what you want to make,' any filmmaker on the planet will make that kind of deal. I would have made it.

Steven Soderbergh

LifeWorkMoneyRestYouI Can

These are our borders, and we have to secure our borders.

Robert Brady

BordersSecureOur

I believe in the power of a positive, high-performance culture, which begins with strong ethical values at the core.

Ron Williams

PositivePowerCultureBelieve

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

Mary Schmich

StyleDayDressEvery DayOutUp

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

Joyce Meyer

DayEvery DayWillReturnUsCloser

The expectation in the Obama Administration, or at least the hope, is that a nuclear deal with the West could ultimately moderate Iranian behavior by helping to integrate the country more thoroughly into the international system. Will this happen? It's impossible to predict, of course. We will only know if we get there.

Dexter Filkins

HopeImpossibleBehaviorCountry

Isn't it nice of the IRS to tell the media where to ambush me before they tell me that the U.S. Attorney is suing me?

Cindy Sheehan

MeMediaNiceTellWhereIRS

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Bryant H. McGill

NatureBestIntelligenceHumanMay

Life for me has always been about timing, and it was bad timing for that disease to hit me; it was time to exit stage.

Brock Lesnar

LifeTimeMeBadTimingExit

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