Christopher Priest Quotes

I think everybody wants to feel validated in some way, and when you're looking for leisure activities or if you're looking for escapism or things like that, you want to read about characters you can identify with.

Christopher Priest

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• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Cloud

• It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Artist

• Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Heart
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Great
  • Business
  • Together

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Feel
  • Back
  • Go

• 'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' – there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Life
  • Christ
  • Birth

• A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Money
  • Truth

• There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Used
  • Remedies
  • Middle Ages

• In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Suffering
  • Importance
  • Scale

• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Suffering
  • End

• Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Say
  • Lose

• Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • End
  • Research
  • Determination

• I know a lot of single people who are not miserable as society tells them they're supposed to be.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • People
  • Society
  • Know

• A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Black
  • Lawyer
  • Group

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Day
  • Health

• Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Love
  • Angels
  • Many

• As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Me
  • Humans
  • Waves

• If you rent, that's it. You don't have to pay any interest to anybody. You don't have to pay any maintenance costs to anybody. You don't have to worry about whether the boiler is going to break down. While if you own your own home, you have a hundred aggravations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Home
  • Worry
  • Down

• For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There's no hiding it. So my anger and sense of disappointment, all the stuff I was out of touch with, became this visible rebuke to my parents.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Parents
  • Interesting
  • Disappointment

• I grew up in the day when the Beatles sold 1 million singles in a week. And all you've got to do now is sell about 10,000 singles and you're in the charts.

  

  Phil Collins Genesis
  • Grew Up
  • Beatles
  • Sold

• The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for castrating pigs during Sunday service.

  

  Mike Harding
  • People
  • Sunday
  • Humorous

• Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will.

  

  Artur Davis
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I think everybody wants to feel validated in some way, and when you're looking for leisure activities or if you're looking for escapism or things like that, you want to read about characters you can identify with.

  

  Christopher Priest