Philip Pullman Quotes

The Master of Jordan College is a foolish old man. Why he gave it to her I can't imagine; you need several years of intensive study to make any sense of it at all.

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• Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Carefree

• We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Fun
  • Blessed
  • Faces

• I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Life
  • Done
  • Think

• Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Never
  • Through
  • Nurse

• You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • You
  • Romantic
  • Lead

• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Sailing

• Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dark
  • Never
  • Influence

• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Good
  • Great
  • Power

• I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Myself

• Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Live
  • Choose
  • Homosexuality

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Game
  • Play
  • Ready

• The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Law
  • Government
  • Foundation

• I don't have a strong interest in history.

  

  Larry Niven
  • History
  • Strong
  • Interest

• The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Today
  • Know
  • Government

• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Hope
  • Free
  • Earth

• I don't think there should be more gun control. I think there should be more education.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Education
  • Control
  • Gun

• I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Live
  • Jesus

• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Live
  • Why

• 'Sensible thing to do, is for us to bugger off out of here and got to bed.' 'Sensible thing to do, is get out the bloody army and die in bed.' 'But that's not why we joined, is it?' 'Speak for yourself, sir. I just joined to get a square meal. Getting killed wasn't really part of the idea at all.'

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Why
  • Die
  • Army

• As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Effort

• Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.

  

  A.S.A. Harrison
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• The Master of Jordan College is a foolish old man. Why he gave it to her I can't imagine; you need several years of intensive study to make any sense of it at all.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Why
  • College
  • Study