Mark Haddon Quotes

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• I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Like
  • Never
  • Being

• When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Home
  • Want
  • Person

• I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Help
  • Think
  • Just

• Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • Find
  • Fame
  • Fortune

• The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Never
  • Critics

• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Words
  • Attention
  • Behavior

• I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Great
  • Music
  • Think

• I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Father
  • Food
  • Day

• In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.

  

  Cam
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Doing

• If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Culture
  • See
  • Said

• They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Long
  • Interesting
  • Thoughts

• I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • Faith
  • Agree

• It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Music
  • Respect
  • Cool

• Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Real
  • Place
  • Connection

• The fact is I like Mumbai less and less. My son says, 'Baba, let's go for a drive', and I tell him, 'Where's the fun of a drive in this place?' You get caught in a million traffic jams, and you spend time cooped in your car with all that mad cacophony around you.

  

  Om Puri
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Car

• My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

  

  Larry David
  • Background
  • Sloth
  • Mostly

• I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • History
  • Justice

• I was a little disappointed. They should have played more of those great songs from the first couple of albums.

  

  Chris Smith
  • Great
  • Couple
  • Songs

• Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Live
  • Impossible
  • Forgetting

• We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.

  

  Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
  • People
  • Sorrow
  • Comfort

• Good oil, like good wine, is a gift from the gods. The grape and the olive are among the priceless benefactions of the soil, and were destined, each in its way, to promote the welfare of man.

  

  George Ellwanger
  • Wine
  • Welfare
  • Destined

• My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything - like anything anyone did, I soaked it up.

  

  Chloe Grace Moretz
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• B is for bestseller.

  

  Mark Haddon