"On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me."

-- Patrick Modiano

#Mother Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.”
“There's a big difference between guiding and controlling.”
“Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head.”
“Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects. He taught me that I had more to learn from the people I work with than I could ever hope to teach them.”
“I was not interested in doing the plot of OEDIPUS in blackface. I did wonder, what would these people have been like if they hadn't been in that situation? . . . One could look at Oedipus, or at my character Augustus, as a cynical schemer who did everything because he was hungry for power. But that's just too easy. I'm more interested in how humans can embody conflicting goals and emotions.”
“In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.”
“How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are touch'd with light. And girlhood hails a world unknown and reads it in her own glad dreams, as lilies see themselves alone reflected in their azure streams. But rosy clouds that morning brings, ere noon may deepen into thunder--and life's dark stream has sterner things than silver lilies growing under.”
“I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.”

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