Philip Pullman Quotes

'We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,' said the witch, 'or die of despair.'

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• I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • House
  • Hate
  • Day

• I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Family
  • Team
  • Support

• I really like sort of disappearing.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Like
  • Really
  • Disappearing

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • People
  • You
  • Support

• Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • You
  • Happiness

• The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Back
  • Bottle

• People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Good
  • Rich

• I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Family
  • Love
  • History

• We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Freedom
  • Need
  • Speech

• Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Money

• I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Family
  • Job
  • Just

• In the end, abortion is an issue of fundamental human rights. To force women to undergo pregnancy and childbirth against their will is to deprive them of the right to make basic decisions about their lives and well-being, and to give that power to the state.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Power
  • End

• I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • God
  • She
  • Woman

• Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

  

  Barry White
  • People
  • Different
  • Happy

• For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Player
  • Environment
  • Consequences

• The tours are campaigns.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Campaigns
  • Tours

• I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Crazy
  • Stupid

• In Othello, Othello kills Desdemona, but no one reads that play as a model for their own behavior. In Lou Reed's case, you're listening to a song, and in my case you're reading about a life. Like Lou, I trust my audience to make their own moral determinations.

  

  Anthony DeCurtis
  • Model
  • Audience
  • Behavior

• There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a moment and then nothing.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Die

• As long as a human being worries about when he will die, and what he has that is his,

  

  Kabir
  • Long
  • Die
  • Teacher

• Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• 'We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,' said the witch, 'or die of despair.'

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Die
  • Witch