Orhan Pamuk Quotes

If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.

Orhan Pamuk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeDreamsPowerImaginationI Am

The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

Menander

AloneGriefSoulManPhysicianWord

Everybody's a dreamer.

John Lithgow

DreamsDreamerEverybody

I will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy.

Michael Cohen

BagStrategyWillDefensePart

No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.

Stephen Kinzer

GreatStepWorldBringTakeUnited

I wasn't a competitor. I would play outside with my friends, but not really anything like ballet or soccer. I tried to play soccer, and it went badly.

Sibel Kekilli

FriendsSoccerPlayOutsideAnything

A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.

Tom Perrotta

LifeProgressSchoolMeHigh School

The Obama administration contends that starting a for-profit business means leaving religious liberty behind. The administration has effectively told the Supreme Court that for-profit companies have no right to act on moral convictions the government opposes. They are about profits. That position is deeply mistaken.

Josh Hawley

BusinessGovernmentLibertyMoral

Keep going on hikes, keep having your friends in your life, keep that downtime sacred as well because as hard as you work in any job, it's really nice to have the relaxing de-stressors. Stress is the worst thing. That's the ultimate demise of any good thing.

Dianna Agron

LifeWorkGoodKeep GoingStress

Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.

Donald Miller

WaitingWaitThinkInterestingMore

Be the person you want others to perceive you as. So if you want others to see you as a leader, then act like one. Don't expect things to be handed to you. You have to work for it.

Christine Tsai

WorkLeaderYouPersonWantSee

I have, for a very long time, been a huge admirer of Marilynne Robinson, whose work I just love.

Phil Klay

WorkLoveTimeLongLong TimeBeen

I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.

Portia de Rossi

RelationshipGreatCaringMeGreen

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