Kalfayan Andre Quotes

Your problem is not that you misread signs; all you see are signs. ~ Andre Aciman

It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in existence today. Wahhabism is a British-inspired fundamentalist movement in Islam. Through its defense of the House of Saud, the US also supports Wahhabism directly and indirectly regardless of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Wahhabism is violent, right wing, ultra-conservative, rigid, extremist, reactionary, sexist, and intolerant ... ~ Andre Vltchek

I was a class clown since second grade. ~ Eric Andre

If we can't say what we think under our roof, then we have no roof. ~ Andre Aciman

I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for. ~ Andre Holland

How would one tell a story about happiness? One can only tell of the origins of happiness and its destruction. ~ Andre Gide

Time is a factor in all action. An imperfect scheme put into action at the proper time is better than a perfect one accomplished too late. ~ Andre Maurois

You know something is a hit comedically if you can just call up one of your friends and belt out a line from the show and you both start laughing. ~ Eric Andre

In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art. ~ Andre Malraux

Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went to San Francisco by train, leaving Boston on a Wednesday morning in June and, then after lunch in New York, boarding Amtrak's Broadway to Chicago. ~ Andre Dubus

It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can. ~ Andre Holland

Frankie's chief virtue in my book is the way he talks about his kids. ~ Andre Agassi

Did I want him to act? Or would I prefer a lifetime of longing provided we both kept this little Ping-Pong game going: not knowing, not-not-knowing, not-not-not-knowing? Just be quiet, say nothing, and if you can't say "yes," don't say "no," say "later." Is this why people say "maybe" when they mean "yes," but hope you'll think it's "no" when all they really mean is, Please, just ask me once more, and once more after that? ~ Andre Aciman

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. ~ Andre Breton

The very things that separated me and distinguished me from other people were what mattered; the very things no one else would or could say, these were the things I had to say. ~ Andre Gide

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure. ~ Andre Gide

Wikipedia is run by hippies of course - the same kind of impractical utopian losers who gave us the first affordable desktop computer and the iPod ~ Andre The BFG

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity
romantic love and gunpowder. ~ Andre Maurois

Art is an intersection of many human needs. ~ Carl Andre

Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything. ~ Andre Breton

Well, if Andre knocks you up and the baby pops out of you Alien-style, I'm shooting it. ~ Laura Thalassa

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation. ~ Andre Gide

She was speaking again, her voice like the chirp of a bird who has flown into a black tunnel but does not yet know it. ~ Andre Dubus III

I never stopped doing what I did as a child. ~ Carl Andre

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. ~ Andre Weil

Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open. ~ Andre Maurois

But I also knew that I was circling wagons around my life with try again laters, and that months, seasons, entire years, a lifetime could go by with nothing but Saint Try-again-later stamped on every day. Try again later worked for people like Oliver. If not later, when? was my shibboleth.

If not later, when? What if he had found me out and uncovered each and every one of my secrets with those four cutting words? ~ Andre Aciman

Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection. ~ Andre Maurois

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. ~ Andre Gide

All the good stuff is on the other side of tired. ~ Andre Agassi

I would like to sleep, in order to surrender myself to the dreamers, the way I surrender myself to those who read me with eyes wide open; in order to stop imposing, in this realm, the conscious rhythm of my thought. ~ Andre Breton

The reason why the book begins with the wish to "play back" how the two met is precisely to see if repeating the scenario might tell the narrator why he is so thoroughly smitten, to play with the scenario all over again, perhaps to master it, as Freud says about repetition. But there cannot be a "reason." An attraction that needs a reason is not a reason the heart or the body cares much about. ~ Andre Aciman

it was montage that gave birth to film as an art, setting it apart from mere animated photography, in short, creating a language. ~ Andre Bazin

The power of god has given men the ability to realize that he does not exist. ~ Andre Santos

A Letter to Andre Breton, Originally Composed on a Leaf of Lettuce With an Ink-dipped
Carrot

On my bed, my green comforter
draped over my knees like a lumpy turtle,
I think about the Berlin Wall of years that separates us.
In my own life, the years are beginning to stack up
like a Guinness World Record's pile of pancakes,
yet I'm still searching for some kind of syrup to believe in.
In the shadows of my pink sheet, I see your face, Desnos' face,
and two clock faces staring at each other. I see a gaping wound
that ebbs rose petals, while a sweaty armpit
holds an orchestra. Beethoven, maybe.
A lover sings a capella, with the frothiness of a cappuccino.
Starbucks, maybe. There's an hourglass, too, and beneath the sands
lie untapped oil reserves. I see Dali's mustache,
Magritte's pipe, and bowling shoes, which leaves the question--
If you could time travel through a trumpet, would you find
today and tomorrow too loud? ~ Jarod Kintz

Other people might want a Ferrari, but I wanted a butterfly house. I built it together with a blacksmith. We designed it together. ~ Andre Rieu

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. ~ Andre Gide

I think guys overtrain and they burn out. And also just knowing what your body needs. Again, I think rest is really important. ~ Andre Reed

There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure. ~ Andre Previn

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen ... when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things. ~ Carl Andre

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near. ~ Andre Gide

The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block. ~ Andre Maurois