Philip Pullman Quotes

'For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.'

Philip Pullman

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• More modern poetry is written than read.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Poetry
  • More
  • Modern

• All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Judgment
  • Drink
  • Clouds

• It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Things
  • Secret
  • Name

• Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Heart
  • Growth
  • Economy

• I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Women
  • Joy
  • Famous

• I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Bad
  • Food
  • Pleasure

• I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • Media
  • Marketing

• I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Summer
  • Winter
  • London

• I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Parents
  • Nice
  • Fall

• I'm one of the regulars. I play this doctor, Dr. Andrew Brown, going through some marriage problems.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Marriage
  • Problems
  • Doctor

• A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Man
  • Poet
  • Lightning

• When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Life
  • Fighting
  • Vision

• The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • World
  • Environmental

• Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • True
  • Age

• If you can't taste an ingredient, you have to ask yourself why it is there.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Why
  • You
  • Yourself

• I don't do my own Instagram.

  

  Young Thug
  • Own
  • My Own
  • Instagram

• Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Curiosity

• I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I moved to Los Angeles for a job, and I just stayed, the dialect out here doesn't really counter, and my Southern started coming back.

  

  Kim Dickens
  • Job

• The joy of accomplishment is the greatest joy there is.

  

  R. G. LeTourneau
  • Joy
  • Accomplishment

• Any attempt to single out Islam would be a violation of the Constitution.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • Single

• I've been a fan of BET since I was a kid, growing up watching the awards, thinking that one day I would be there.

  

  Young M.A
  • Thinking
  • Growing
  • Would

• Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Different
  • Action
  • Select

• 'For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.'

  

  Philip Pullman