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 found that the quality of TV material that came to me was so great and was just often better than the film material I got. And when I find a good movie that I really like, I jump on it because it's exciting to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Good
  • Great
  • Movie

• 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

• A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Life
  • Future
  • Dream

• I saw Boy George looking amazing, absolutely unbelievable, and messaged him asking for the number of his nutritionist. I got in touch with her, and she put me on this diet plan, working out which foods do and don't suit me. It's not rocket science - basically, don't eat cake, don't eat bread.

  

  James Corden
  • She
  • Science
  • Amazing

• Sometimes you can tell a wise person not only by what he says but also by what he doesn't say. Remember, it is much better to say little than to say too much and regret it later.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Remember
  • Wise
  • Regret

• So many young black women love science, technology, engineering, and maths. But that's not the widely held image of the kind of person who likes those things.

  

  Letitia Wright
  • Women
  • Science
  • Black

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

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Remember
  • Science