Bill Buford Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
-
The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
-
I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
-
I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
-
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
-
Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
-
The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
-
San Francisco, coolest place ever.
-
Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
-
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
-
There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
-
I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
-
Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
-
All of my main characters have been under 30.
-
Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
-
Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
-
No one person is an island.
-
What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
-
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
-
I travel, a lot, to research the locales for the books. I have professional contacts that I can ask questions of or show them scenes to vet.
-
We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the virtues of sympathy, charity, and non-resistance may be, and often have been, manifested in excess. ... You will agree to this in general, for in spite of the Gospel, in spite of Quakerism, in spite of Tolstoi, you believe in fighting fire with fire, in shooting down usurpers, locking up thieves, and freezing out vagabonds and swindlers.
-
If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'
-
The reality of America is mass-market stupidity.
