Philip Reeve Quotes

I don't travel much; I just stay at home and imagine weird places.

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• Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Made
  • Tolerance
  • Liberal

• Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Fraud

• Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Science
  • You
  • Fiction

• After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Critics
  • Others
  • Rather

• I think America has a brilliant future.

  

  Harold Evans
  • America
  • Think
  • Future

• It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Building

• I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Internet

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Bored
  • Because

• Comedians paint ourselves into corners all the time, and tastes in comedy change. The guy in 'The Hangover' was a really fun character to do, and it was easy to do. But you have to find other things because audiences will let you do that for a little bit, and then they're like, 'What else do you have for us, monkey?'

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Character
  • Fun

• Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Things

• Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • World
  • Black
  • Longevity

• When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Kids
  • You
  • Mom

• I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Dreams

• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Son
  • Impact

• I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Know
  • Dreaming
  • Expecting

• I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Play
  • Matter
  • Comfortable

• If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • World
  • Career
  • Value

• The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Home
  • Ache
  • Safe Place

• I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.

  

  Jessica Pare
  • Done
  • Home
  • Comedy

• Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?

  

  Rachel Carson
  • World
  • Live
  • Why

• So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • God
  • Done

• It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

  

  Diogenes
  • Wise

• I don't travel much; I just stay at home and imagine weird places.

  

  Philip Reeve
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