Philip Larkin Quotes

Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.

Philip Larkin

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• I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Real
  • School
  • Dance

• I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Always
  • Literature
  • New

• It is more important to know how to mix and match the clothes than to spend money.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Important
  • Money
  • Clothes

• I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Think
  • Losing
  • Key

• On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Good
  • Great
  • American

• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Interesting
  • Present
  • Which

• Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Better
  • Movies
  • More

• AT&T is interested in anything that drives more bandwidth requirements, and Apple TV drives significant bandwidth, and the iPhone drives significant bandwidth, and so I think it's a very logical fit.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Think
  • Apple
  • iPhone

• Ricky Gervais is a genius.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Genius
  • Ricky

• Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fall

• If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Tongue

• Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Sex
  • Same

• I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.

  

  M. Ward
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Value

• I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • Always

• The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Control
  • Choice

• A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Light
  • Mistake

• The one standard in art is oneness and fineness, rightness and purity, abstractness and evanescence. The one thing to say about art is, its breathlessness, lifelessness, deathlessness, contentlessness, formlessness, spacelessness, and timelessness. This is always the end of art.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art

• You are sure your enemy is stupid because he doesn't do things as you would do them. It will make you careless, and your enemy will surprise you.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Enemy
  • Stupid

• It was at St. Mary’s that I met and learned to love the greatest man I’ve ever known. His name was Brother Matthias. He was the father I needed. He taught me to read and write - and he taught me the difference between right and wrong.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Father
  • Brother

• I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Movie
  • Fashion
  • End

• I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone or it will ruin my image.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Image
  • Drugs

• Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.

  

  Philip Larkin