Mark Haddon Quotes

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

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• Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • May
  • Business
  • Community

• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
  • Business
  • Man

• I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.

  

  Fleur East
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Want

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Look

• I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Take
  • Normally

• The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Job
  • You
  • Looks

• Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Taken
  • Make
  • Sure

• We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Class

• I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Attitude
  • Look

• There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Try
  • Take
  • Retreat

• I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Think
  • Hit
  • Gestures

• Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Grumpy

• I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the weekend because you just have that sort of energy in your 20s; it's wonderful.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Energy

• Much before I entered films, my dad walked into my room and saw me busy drawing something at 3 A.M. He stood there for some time and said, 'Whatever career choice you make, you are going to be successful.' I'll never forget those words. It gave me the confidence to be who I am today.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Time
  • Today
  • Career

• The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.

  

  Cheri Huber
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Focus

• 'I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's some people who have abused it, they've allowed their fundamentalism to interfere with the real message, which in my mind, was that people should be allowed to live their lives the way they want to.' 4

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Live
  • Mind

• They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Resist

• I like technology, but the blockbuster games use it for the same thing over and over again.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Technology

• I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Remember
  • Science