Christopher Priest Quotes

I'm abrasive. I am so sure that I'm right about virtually everything. I can sing you an aria of reasons to not like me.

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• Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Heart
  • Conservatism
  • Ecology

• If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Important
  • Father

• I like to run fast but not drive.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Run
  • Drive
  • Fast

• I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Peace
  • Myself

• I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Shows
  • Been
  • Preserved

• I don't think people spend nearly enough time thinking about what they like and what they're good at.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• As writers, it is our job not only to imagine, but to witness.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Job
  • Imagine
  • Only

• I don't wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That's basically what I smell like.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Like
  • Take
  • Smell

• Reality is not exhausted by knowledge. Inaccessible to research are the ultimate facts. All scientific conclusions are based on axioms, all reasoning depends ultimately upon faith. Faith is virgin thinking, preceding all transcendent knowledge. To believe is to abide at the extremities of spirit.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Serious
  • Sex

• So young when the pain had begun Now forever afraid of being loved.

  

  Demi Lovato
  • Pain
  • Forever

• I never wish to be more charitable than Christ. I find it written: 'Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.'

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • God
  • Wish

• My expectations are incredibly high.

  

  Paula Creamer
  • High

• When I finished 'P.S. I Still Love You,' I truly was done with the series. I kept saying the books were two halves of a heart. But I suppose time and space had made me nostalgic, because my mind kept drifting back to Lara Jean and Peter, wondering what they were up to.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• The Singapore Open is the flagship event of the Asian Tour, it is a massive event and it is being played in a great place. I love coming here and it is good to be back.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • Good
  • Great

• We still have to overcome the notion that a clarinet squeaks. People need to remember what a beautiful instrument it is, including in popular music.

  

  Anat Cohen
  • People
  • Music
  • Remember

• This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

  

  Byron Dorgan
  • Thinking
  • Country

• I still find doing portraits a terrific challenge, but even though I've done hundreds of them, I've never stopped questioning the very nature of portraiture because it deals exclusively with appearances. I've never believed people are what they look like and think it's impossible to really know what people are.

  

  Duane Michals
  • People
  • Done
  • Nature

• As a little girl in the '50s, I couldn't wear a purple-and-white flowered skirt with a red blouse - those colors were too loud. My parents were not into that 'We are Negros that wear all beige,' but there was a line you could walk over that could signal vulgar, crass, rather than clever use of color. And that outfit crossed over the line.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Parents
  • Girl
  • Color

• To my mind's eye, my buried memories of Brandham Hall are like effects of chiaroscuro, patches of light and dark: it is only with effort that I see them in terms of colour. There are things I know, though I don't know how I know them, and things that I remember. Certain things are established in my mind as facts, but no picture attaches to them; on the other hand there are pictures unverified by any fact which recur obsessively, like the landscape of a dream.

  

  Leslie Poles Hartley
  • Memory

• Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Enough
  • Pay
  • Taste

• At my age, the radiation will probably do me good.

  

  Norman Wisdom
  • Good
  • Age
  • Radiation

• I'm abrasive. I am so sure that I'm right about virtually everything. I can sing you an aria of reasons to not like me.

  

  Christopher Priest