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First Quotes by Nicole Krauss
- For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels, I was asked…
- I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five…
- My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one…
- Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change. One…
- Maybe the first time you saw her you were ten. She was standing in the sun scratching her legs. Or tracing letters in the dirt…
- When I was with Yoav, everything in me that had been sitting stood up. He had a way of looking at me with a kind…
- Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life…
- Then I turned the page and at the top it said THINGS I MISS ABOUT M and there was a list of 15 things, and…
- Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape.…
- At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong