Mark Haddon Quotes

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

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• I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to American culture. I feel good there - but I'm still a foreigner.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Good
  • Important
  • American

• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Earth
  • Government

• My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Fear
  • Social

• People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was the popularization of the phrases 'neutral facial expression' and 'screaming in agony.'

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Funny
  • Me

• There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Interesting
  • Journey
  • Find

• You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Food
  • Hug

• Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Fall
  • Said

• My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.

  

  Sally Jewell
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • People
  • Speak
  • Internet

• People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Problems
  • Self

• When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Enjoy

• Everybody takes at least 20, so even if you see a good selfie, it probably wasn't the first one. So my tip is to just not take it too seriously and have fun.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Have Fun

• I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Good
  • Control
  • Fate

• I feel good not just physically but as a person because I know I accomplished my goal, which everybody said I couldn't do in Venezuela.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Good
  • Know
  • Goal

• People always say there's no such thing as bad publicity, and you always think they're right, because it seems self-evident: nobody's going to buy a magazine that nobody ever talks about, so people should want to buy a magazine that everybody's talking about.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

  

  John Marshall
  • Powerful
  • Communication

• Minks are mean little critters. Vicous, horrible little animals who eat their own. They're not beavers. I wouldn't wear beavers. I'd rather have a mink coat made of mean little critters that are killed in a very nice way and treated nicely for their short, mean lives so that I could keep warm.

  

  Valerie Perrine
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Animal

• There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Party
  • Cooking
  • Painless

• One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.

  

  Emile Durkheim
  • Long
  • Nature

• Malice is always authentic and sincere.

  

  Mason Cooley

• I think good books have to make a few people angry.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • People
  • Good
  • Angry