Christopher Fowler Quotes

There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.

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• I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Look
  • Got

• If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Work
  • Children
  • Career

• I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Night
  • Food

• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Society
  • Teacher

• No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Person
  • Above

• There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Thought
  • Nothing
  • Absence

• The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Knowledge
  • Church
  • Rules

• Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!

  

  Ian Smith
  • World
  • Years
  • Everything

• When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Same

• We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • America
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Working
  • Lucky
  • Incredible

• I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Music
  • Love
  • Week

• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Day
  • Revolution

• These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Personal
  • Open

• I actually prefer Twitter as a medium, and I also got into Periscope for a second, but I'm still trying to figure out what to do with it. I can't figure out if the only important thing about it is the live broadcast, or if it's an interesting kind of way to log what you do.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Important
  • Live
  • Trying

• The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • People
  • Important
  • City

• A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Practice

• An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Men
  • Artist
  • Immortality

• The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

  

  Confucius
  • Wise
  • Hills
  • Joyful

• These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Long
  • Community
  • Fly

• There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable failure and better times long gone.

  

  Christopher Fowler
  • Long
  • Lost
  • Failure