Anthony Doerr quote: "On the rue de la Crosse, the Hotel of Bees becomes almost weightless for a moment, lifted in a spiral of flame, before it begins to rain the pieces back to the earth"

I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.
ANTHONY DOERR

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.
ANTHONY DOERR

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than dr...
ANTHONY DOERR

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was get...
ANTHONY DOERR

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot...
ANTHONY DOERR

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.
ANTHONY DOERR

For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program...
ANTHONY DOERR

But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's g...
ANTHONY DOERR

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all ...
ANTHONY DOERR

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high...
ANTHONY DOERR

She takes no notice of him; she seems to know nothing but the morning.
ANTHONY DOERR

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
ANTHONY DOERR

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
ANTHONY DOERR

What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in on...
ANTHONY DOERR

I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It cont...
ANTHONY DOERR

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.
ANTHONY DOERR

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of...
ANTHONY DOERR

Word has it . . . the stone is from Japan, it's very ancient, it belonged to a shogun in the elevent...
ANTHONY DOERR

There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight ind...
ANTHONY DOERR

War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute s...
ANTHONY DOERR

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was...
ANTHONY DOERR

People walk the paths of the gardens below, and the wind sings anthems in the hedges, and the big ol...
ANTHONY DOERR

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?
ANTHONY DOERR

How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?
ANTHONY DOERR

...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitt...
ANTHONY DOERR

Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you ...
ANTHONY DOERR

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
ANTHONY DOERR

Your problem, Werner,” says Frederick, “is that you still believe you own your life.
ANTHONY DOERR

Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Others in other ways.
ANTHONY DOERR

You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That...
ANTHONY DOERR

We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.
ANTHONY DOERR

The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness.
ANTHONY DOERR

A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us sw...
ANTHONY DOERR

When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave....
ANTHONY DOERR

I’m thankful that everything sweet is sweet because it is finite.
ANTHONY DOERR

The stars were so many and so white they looked like chips of ice, hammered through the fabric of th...
ANTHONY DOERR

He never cried, not even when his alarm went off. Swaddled in his Moses basket, wires trailing out t...
ANTHONY DOERR

What the war did to dreamers.
ANTHONY DOERR

Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.
ANTHONY DOERR

A real diamond is never perfect.
ANTHONY DOERR

All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?
ANTHONY DOERR

That something so small could be so beautiful. Worth so much. Only the strongest people can turn awa...
ANTHONY DOERR

Somewhere in the ruins above them, the cats are howling.
ANTHONY DOERR

One night he sits up. In cots around him are a few dozen sick or wounded. A warm September wind pour...
ANTHONY DOERR

She is in charge of everything, but no one knows. It is a tremendous burden, she says, to be respons...
ANTHONY DOERR

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care ...
ANTHONY DOERR

¿Sabes cuál es la lección más importante d ela historia? Que solo la escriben los vencedores. Es...
ANTHONY DOERR

And is it so hard to believe that souls might also travel those paths? That her father and Etienne a...
ANTHONY DOERR

What the war did to the dreamers.
ANTHONY DOERR

But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?
ANTHONY DOERR

We are a volley of bullets, we are cannonballs. We are the tip of the sword.
ANTHONY DOERR

It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons o...
JOHN DOERR

Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century.
JOHN DOERR

We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years ...
BOBBY DOERR

They've found a way to privately, or within a small family group, share expressions, or other im...
JOHN DOERR

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is com...
JOHN DOERR

Even after I played ten years of ball, I still felt like I had to play well or somebody might take m...
BOBBY DOERR

Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fue...
JOHN DOERR

I never did work in the off-season, and I never did play winter ball or anything else. I think it wa...
BOBBY DOERR

Joe's right, China's very important. I'm not sure we can't collaborate with them, and seeing China s...
JOHN DOERR

You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.
HARRIET DOERR

We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wante...
ANTHONY DAVIS

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.
LYSETTE ANTHONY

You have to speak from a place where all is possible. When you speak from a place where there's ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything ...
ANTHONY BURGESS

I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audie...
ANTHONY BURGESS

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
ANTHONY BURGESS

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri...
ANTHONY BURGESS

I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose...
ANTHONY BURGESS

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectu...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,00...
ANTHONY BURGESS

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Every dogma has its day.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of reti...
ANTHONY BURGESS

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
ANTHONY BURGESS

I didn't think; I experimented.
ANTHONY BURGESS

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experiment...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use t...
ANTHONY BURGESS

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come fr...
ANTHONY BURGESS

People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.
CARMELO ANTHONY

If I'm in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe,...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is politica...
ANTHONY LEWIS

Journalism is always the art of the incomplete. You get bits and pieces.
ANTHONY SHADID

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that yo...
PIERS ANTHONY

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs w...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
ANTHONY HAMILTON

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wron...
ANTHONY STORR

I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taki...
ANTHONY SHADID

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
ANTHONY BURGESS

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
KATHARINE ANTHONY

For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are in...
KATHARINE ANTHONY

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.
KATHARINE ANTHONY

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at ...
KATHARINE ANTHONY

People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
KATHARINE ANTHONY

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if no...
KATHARINE ANTHONY

I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight; we're capable of ki...
ANTHONY PETTIS

For me to have a cheeky little biscuit, it's not going to hurt. But I need to control those indu...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. ...
ANTHONY WEINER

Nothing, she now knew, could be defined in exclusion, and every bug, pencil, and grass blade was a d...
ANTHONY MARRA

Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. T...
ANTHONY RYAN

Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are picture...
ANTHONY WEINER

It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a wit...
ANTHONY HECHT

After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both th...
ANTHONY MARRA

With oil prices plummeting in late 2015 and early 2016, Gulf states have taken the unusual step of i...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

I'm very bullish on the streetcar.
ANTHONY FOXX

I think her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, a...
ANTHONY HOLDEN

Only 10 per cent of food grown in India is processed. So the best way to reduce food waste and maxim...
ANTHONY PRATT

I'm a businessperson. I'm used to dealing with friction.
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

I'll get seven hours sleep a night, but after breakfast, I'll have an hour just resting, to ...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

My first real awareness of Chechnya came when I was a college student studying in Russia. I arrived ...
ANTHONY MARRA

The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

You're never too young to die.
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider
ANTHONY HOROWITZ

Tom Arnold and I, we have a huge firefight scene on top of a German tank. I get to shoot 50 caliber ...
ANTHONY ANDERSON

I love Australia. I love the people there; they are fantastic. The business opportunities are endles...
ANTHONY PRATT

The immune system's goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as mi...
ANTHONY FAUCI

I used to drink. I didn't like reading, but I discovered the benefits of it. I read that Floyd M...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mum...
ANTHONY JOSHUA

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.
ANTHONY RAPP

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes ea...
ANTHONY TROLOPPE

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn&#...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know,...
ANTHONY HENLEY

As a baby boomer myself, I can tell you we are part of the have-it-all generation. We pretend never ...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI

Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.
ANTHONY MACKIE

When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

I said, 'I can't play Nixon. I'm not an American.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

The World's Fastest Indian? Oh, that's not for me. I've done enough with that role.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I don't look like him; I'm Welsh and have a rugby player's build. Burt was long and sinewy, but that...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and a...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

[During one scene in the movie] Proof, ... Night of the Living Dead.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

When I became an actor my dream was ... to come here to Hollywood. You know Hollywood is a state of ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Well, it's mission impossible, Mr. Hunt -- not mission difficult.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

On his Hannibal Lector mask: I've got it at home. I wear it to bed every night.
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore…only the life I have lived… The ...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Why love if losing hurts so much… I have no answers anymore… only the life I have lived… The p...
ANTHONY HOPKINS

Love yourself every day, and twice on Sunday.
ANTHONY BEAL

On the Catholic priesthood: I refuse to consider anything said to me about saving my soul by any man...
ANTHONY BEAL

I am a precious evil.
ANTHONY BEAL

My pen is my razor, and I've been bleeding.
ANTHONY BEAL

For one to expect or ask things of others that he himself, if asked, would not be willing to do or g...
ANTHONY BEAL

Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which...
ANTHONY BEAL

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.
ANTHONY MARCEL

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
ANTHONY HOPE

I can't worry about what other people are saying about me. At the end of the day, it's just ...
CARMELO ANTHONY

We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what t...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping i...
ANTHONY MARRA

your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Suddenly we could all hear, we could all listen, and instead of being caught up in our finite little...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are ...
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first majo...
ANTHONY FAUCI

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
ANTHONY POWELL

The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.
ANTHONY LICCIONE

Individual talent is an obstruction principally among teams that employ the facade of a synergy to d...
ANTHONY CORLISATRA

The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chain...
ANTHONY LICCIONE

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?
ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something ba...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people w...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you ha...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Action is the foundational key to all success.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find hi...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has pr...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the b...
ANTHONY SAMPSON

Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if t...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the...
ANTHONY ATALA

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Personal power is the ability to take action.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure u...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

It's in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

CANI! - (pronounced kuhn-EYE) stands for Constant And Never-ending Improvement.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
ANTHONY ROBBINS

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything i...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think tha...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE

What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective w...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to ...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yours...
ANTHONY ROBBINS

One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting t...
ANTHONY KIEDIS

On the rue de la Crosse, the Hotel of Bees becomes almost weightless for a moment, lifted in a spiral of flame, before it begins to rain the pieces back to the earth

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