About Quote by Paul Auster Download Open image “Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.” — Paul Auster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare About Certainties Lifelong Our Second Single World
It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion. — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
“We have a very short window in which to accomplish a great deal, one measured in minutes rather than hours. “We succeed, and we will have freed dozens of galaxies and species from tyranny. We succeed, and we will have saved our home, our friends and our loved ones from the looming threat of annihilation. We succeed, and everyone has… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share
There is only one world; the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive; this… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be. — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
“On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“What people saw when he appeared before them, then, was not really him, but a person he had invented, an artificial creature he could… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Writing has always had a tactile quality for me. It's a physical experience. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he's ever read, and another person will say… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The ideal reader's the same, and I suppose this person has never had a face or a gender or an age. It's just some… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
That's something a lot of folks don't know about me - I'm pretty darn funny. — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon… — Magdalena Neuner Copy Share Image
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do 'Fashion Police' because I thought, 'This is stupid, this is beneath me, who wants to talk about fashion?' It… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
I just worried about my weight. Worried about my appearance and thought I wan't pretty enough to be a pop star. It was very very strange. — Judith Durham Copy Share
