Philip Pullman Quotes

You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.

Philip Pullman

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• If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Great
  • Political
  • Ugly

• I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Like

• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Famous

• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Death
  • Light
  • Dawn

• There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Me

• I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • Me
  • Stop

• I think God gives you all good things at the same time.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Meet
  • Agreement
  • Ambassadors

• The United States is very good at understanding itself, and very bad at understanding others.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Understanding

• I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Structure
  • Interview
  • Mass

• We are not communists.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Communists

• Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It is an embroidery and cannot be the embroiderer. It is a register and cannot be the accountant. It is the law and cannot be the power.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Art
  • Book
  • Power

• Simplicity is the glory of expression.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Expression
  • Simplicity

• Basically, I always go to vintage shops rather than going shopping for new clothes.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Clothes
  • Shopping
  • Vintage

• The heath was victorious, keeping off on all sides. The common people were charmed, During time proceeding of the men. The oak, quickly moving, Before him, tremble heaven and earth. A valiant door-keeper against an enemy, his name is considered. The blue-bells combined, And caused a consternation. In rejecting, were rejected, Others, that were perforated

  

  Taliesin
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• He loved her so passionately he wanted her to be one soul and one body with him; and he was conscious that here, with those deep roots attaching her to the native life, she would always keep something from him.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Love
  • Soul

• Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Value

• The law of small numbers is not really a law. It is a sarcastic name describing the misguided attempt to apply the law of large numbers when the numbers aren't large.

  

  Leonard Mlodinow
  • Small
  • Law
  • Sarcastic

• I didn't know I was going to live for 50 years. It has come as a shock.

  

  David Bailey
  • Live

• It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Quality

• We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.

  

  Meg Cabot
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Funny

• But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Death
  • Depravity

• You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.

  

  Philip Pullman