Top 31 Calle Quotes
#1. My favourite place in the whole city was the Sempere & Sons bookshop on Calle Santa Anna. It smelled of old paper and dust and it was my sanctuary, my refuge.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#2. Bea is the only good thing I've ever done in my life,' he said. 'Take care of her for me.'
My father went with him to the door and watched him walk away down Calle Santa Ana, with that sadness that softens men who are aware that they are growing old together.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#3. I love Calle 13 - they are Puerto Rican; some songs sound like Reggaeton, but it's not Reggaeton; it's good urban music.
Stephanie Sigman
#4. I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#5. I later found a bookstore on the Calle de Gravina - Libros, I believe it was called. (I'm not kidding, a bookstore called "Books.")
John Irving
#6. And may you live to see it,' said Fermin, as he signalled to the siren from Calle Escudillers to start displaying her wares.
I saw her caress the old man with infinite delicacy,
kissing the tears that fell down his cheeks.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#7. I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me.
Sophie Calle
#8. Art is a way of taking distance. The pathological or therapeutic aspects exist, but just as catalysts.
Sophie Calle
#9. I think I've never left my house to take a plane without writing my will. There must be about 30 wills in my drawers, everywhere, in the kitchen. Everywhere, I have wills because I write wills more easily than I write love letters.
Sophie Calle
#10. Today when you nurture, love and meet the needs of your beloveds with beauty, it will make a difference in how they face their whole day.
Sally Clarkson
#11. I met a photographer who agreed to give me a few lessons; in exchange, I had to pose naked for him.
Sophie Calle
#13. I remember very much there in Falls Church there was a creek that was flowing down into 4 Mile Run. I believe it's now covered up where it goes under Columbia Street. I found a whole family of weasels down there.
Jim Fowler
#14. I went to Istanbul. I spoke to blind people, most of whom had lost their sight suddenly. I asked them to describe the last thing they saw.
Sophie Calle
#15. For 'The Hotel' I spent one year to find the hotel, I spent three months going through the text and writing it, I spent three months going through the photographs and I spent one day deciding it would be this size and this frame ... it's the last thought in the process.
Sophie Calle
#16. If we clash with anyone, then it is our own weakness only.
Dada Bhagwan
#17. I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#18. In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.
Sophie Calle
#19. At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.
Sophie Calle
#20. Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.
Sophie Calle
#21. At the G-20 summit, the White House accidentally listed a phone-sex line for journalists seeking an on-record briefing call for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. To which Bill said, 'Boy, did they get the wrong number.'
Jay Leno
#22. My mother was a very absent mother. She was going out, she was drinking a lot, she liked to have fun. It's fine with me. I have no bitterness about it. When I was 3, she went to America for months. I never had any problems with that. I even liked it.
Sophie Calle
#23. You knew you had become comfortable when you told him that you watched Jeopardy on the restaurant TV and that you rooted for the following, in this order: women of color, black men, and white women, before, finally, white men - which meant you never rooted for white men.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#24. I didn't go to the North Pole to do something about my mother. I was invited to the North Pole and I realized it was impossible to go there without thinking about her.
Sophie Calle
#25. We come from the days when rap used to agitate the mainstream. Now it's more buddy-buddy. That doesn't sit well with me. So what we need is [a bit more] street politics, bringing up issues, agitating you a little bit. And nothing can agitate you more now than a terrorist threat.
Ice Cube
#26. Relax in the precious arms of the Holy Spirit.
T. B. Joshua
#27. I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and to give it its own end.
Sophie Calle
#28. I made three works about men in my life. But I had much more than three men. I never wrote about them.
Sophie Calle
#29. I believe that sometimes people come into your life at exactly the right moment to give you exactly what you need at that moment.
Lisa Mangum
#30. I don't care about truth; I care about art and style and writing and occupying the wall. For me, my writing style is very linked to the fact that it is a work of art on the wall. I had to find a way to write in concise, effective phrases that people standing or walking into a room could read.
Sophie Calle
#31. This then is programming, both a tar pit in which many efforts have floundered and a creative activity with joys and woes all its own.
Anonymous
