Mark Haddon Quotes
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
Quotes to Explore
-
One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
-
My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
-
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
-
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
-
I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
-
I'm easily entertained.
-
I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
-
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
-
I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
-
Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
-
Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
-
Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
-
We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
-
Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
-
In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
-
My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
-
We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
-
You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
-
We don't worry about the integrity of our game. I'm more focused on the atmosphere in the arena, and that's something we're comfortable with going forward.
-
Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.
-
I try to be as honest as I can in writing. That's what ends up translating and relating to people.
-
Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.
-
Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.
-
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
