Andrew Zuckerman Quotes

#1. It's in the kitchen that confidences are exchanged, that family life takes place; it's among the remains of a meal or when your're elbow-deep in peelings that you ask yourself what life is all about, rather than when you're sunk in an armchair in the sitting room.

Benoite Groult

#2. I like photography as a recording device. It's the best possible two-dimensional representation of 3D living things that we have.

Andrew Zuckerman

#3. I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.

Charles Bukowski

#4. Play in curiosity is where everything happens.

Andrew Zuckerman

#5. I am a big book collector. I love books.

Andrew Zuckerman

#6. It was the time of year when the atmosphere streamed with unexpected hints and memories, and a paradoxical sense of renewal.

Alan Hollinghurst

#7. ...there's no mistake if you can resolve it, whether it's in your music or in your life. Sometimes the mistake motivates you or elevates you to a different circumstance that can be better. If I make a mistake, I'm going to develop that mistake, so it doesn't sound like a mistake. -Dave Brubeck

Andrew Zuckerman

#8. She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.

Christopher Moore

#9. I dip my head and kiss her. I kiss her like she deserves to be kissed. I hold her like she deserves to be held. And I'm about to make love to her like she deserves to be loved.

Colleen Hoover

#10. A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed some probable conjectures, that man was designed for a future state of existence.

David Brainerd

#11. Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

Joyce Meyer

#12. I love music, that it changes so much, but I also want to keep a bit of the country roots to make it country. I don't want to go too far away from it, or I would do pop music.

Jana Kramer

#13. Experience tells us that few matches are won on the back of one or two good sessions of play. To win a Test match most teams have to win and outplay the opposition for extended periods of time.

Justin Langer

#14. of the scorpion and the frog? The frog carried the scorpion on its back as they crossed the river. The scorpion stung the frog, and as they both were drowning, the frog asked the scorpion why he'd done it." "Because I'm a scorpion,

Skye Warren

#15. What gets projects done for me is not inspiration. It's curiosity and rigor.

Andrew Zuckerman

#16. Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.

Andrew Zuckerman

#17. You would like to read, but somehow the rain gets into the book, too; not literally, and yet it really does, the letters are meaningless, and all you hear is the rain.

Sandor Marai

#18. At the end of my life, I was told to vote for it for pensioners; I' m not in favour of means tests for pensioners or anybody.

Tony Benn

#19. Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what it's all about.

Andrew Zuckerman

#20. The work that I feel is most authentically mine is the one that is my first reaction, the first thing that feels like the truth. In aggregate, those choices, those series of decisions, create your point of view, your visual language.

Andrew Zuckerman

#21. The instant of petrified violence that sometimes foreruns a summer storm saturated the hushed yard, and in the unearthly tinseled light rusty buckets of trailing fern which were strung round the porch like party lanterns appeared illuminated by a faint green inward flame.

Truman Capote

#22. The surprise was worse that the pain. It showed a lack of awareness.

Robert Ferrigno

#23. You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.

Andrew Zuckerman

#24. He establishes every purpose by counsel (Prov. 20:18). God, indeed, uses carnal men to very good service, but without a thorough altering and conviction of their judgment. He works by them, but not in them. Therefore they do neither approve the good they do nor hate the evil they abstain from.

Richard Sibbes