Philip Pullman Quotes

'That is how it seems....But we can’t read the darkness, Mr. Scoresby. It is more than possible that I might be wrong.'

Philip Pullman

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• The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Situation
  • Worst
  • Lead

• It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Human
  • Impossible
  • View

• I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Mind
  • Feel
  • Ready

• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Idea

• I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Time
  • Music
  • Friends

• Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Europe
  • Take

• It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Great
  • Country
  • Generosity

• I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Career

• Everybody is always going to have haters. It comes with the job. You have to have a tough skin and not let it affect you.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Job
  • Tough
  • Haters

• If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • You
  • Democracy
  • Find

• There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Point
  • Realize
  • Got

• Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Taken
  • Years

• The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,-a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Society
  • Walking

• I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Work
  • Princess

• Fuck that! Conor McGregor, you're taking everything I've worked for, motherfucker! I'm going to fight your fucking ass!

  

  Nate Diaz

• ...reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Innocent

• In Hollywood, you just kind of fail upwards.

  

  Kevin Smith

• The wind shrieks, the wind grieves;It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again;And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreamsAnd desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Pain
  • Wind

• I started doing karate at four, my parents were karatekas. I stopped when I was 17 and went to Julliard and had a lot of stage combat there.

  

  Lynn Collins
  • Parents

• Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

  

  Peter Abelard
  • World
  • God
  • Death

• In government, things do not move too quick. That is why I am trying to introduce a new culture: so that things move more quickly.

  

  Jacob Zuma
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Culture

• I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

  

  James Mattis
  • Couple

• 'That is how it seems....But we can’t read the darkness, Mr. Scoresby. It is more than possible that I might be wrong.'

  

  Philip Pullman