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Place Quotes by Paul Auster
- Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can…
- Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of…
- It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.
- That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab humdrum corners of…
- In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I…
- No one was to blame for what happened, but that does not make it any less difficult to accept. It was all a matter of…
- In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns…
- At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has…
- For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their…
More Place Quotes
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden