Philip Pullman Quotes

Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.

Philip Pullman

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• A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Life
  • Long
  • Space

• When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Think
  • Idiot
  • Computers

• Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Book
  • Practice
  • Better

• Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Food
  • Quality
  • Brain

• The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Mind
  • Poetry
  • End

• Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Music
  • Important
  • Day

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

  Cao Yu
  • People
  • Society
  • Ideas

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Being
  • Thing

• I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Directors
  • Top

• I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Think
  • You
  • Hollywood

• A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Work
  • Serious
  • Protect

• O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Vision

• Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Women
  • Random

• Morals are three-quarters manners.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Life
  • Live
  • Die

• The problem with faith, is that it really is a conversation stopper. Faith is a declaration of immunity to the powers of conversation. It is a reason, why you do not have to give reasons, for what you believe.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Faith

• My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Work
  • Eyes

• Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Fear

• I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

  

  John Burns
  • Done
  • Experience
  • High

• Illicit weapons have always been available to those who can afford them, but they have not generally been the latest state-of-the-art equipment, which requires experience and expertise to use.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Art
  • Experience

• I don't necessarily put on an act when I go on Jay Leno or dress differently in public than I do in private. I'd like to think I'm the same person, more or less.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Public
  • Dress
  • Private

• Feb 6 1945 St. Ann, Jamaica, Daddy was born. I remember us celebrating one of his birthdays in Jamaica at 56 Hope Road with him, no big superstar party, just us kids, Mommy, some cake, few laughs and that was it. Even if he wasn't known to the world on Feb 6th I would still think of him and in my heart say Happy Birthday Daddy. Love.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Heart

• Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.

  

  Philip Pullman