Mark Haddon Quotes

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

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• I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Death
  • Scared
  • Ninja

• We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Country
  • May
  • Problem

• The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Calm
  • Worried

• I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • People
  • Friends
  • Thought

• Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Depression
  • Loss
  • Insomnia

• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • World
  • Different
  • Heaven

• It's the way you ride the trail that counts.

  

  Dale Evans
  • You
  • Ride
  • Trail

• There's nothing wrong with being fired.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Being
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Acting
  • Theory
  • Student

• I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Problem
  • Listening
  • Emotions

• There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Knowledge
  • Pride
  • Temptation

• Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Happy

• The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • America
  • Down

• Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Fear
  • Feelings
  • More

• I'd always had quite a privileged lifestyle, to be honest. I've never wanted for anything, but I do know the value of things. I'm not, like, a brat.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Know
  • Value
  • Never

• I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Different
  • Job
  • Friends

• I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

  

  J Mascis
  • Work
  • Why
  • Enjoy

• I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Successor
  • Charlemagne
  • Louis XVI

• I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Single
  • Heaven

• Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair.

  

  Francis of Assisi
  • Moon
  • Sister

• The latest report says the results of an investigation will be released in three or four weeks. That's a long time for fruit flies and the press.

  

  Denis Boyles
  • Time
  • Results
  • Press

• Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Influence

• Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Up
  • Work
  • Reading

• I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Lazy