James Gray Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
-
I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
-
I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.
-
All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
-
Reverence is fatal to literature.
-
I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.
-
My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
-
I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
-
I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
-
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
-
Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
-
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
-
I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
-
America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
-
The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
-
My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
-
I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
-
Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
-
Both me and Ishmeet were very naughty. We used to have my grandfather's swords in the house. We used to take all these swords and take all the showpieces Mom had and slice them one by one. He actually locked my nana in the kitchen once for two hours.
-
You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You're only as good as the team you have behind you.
-
I like to listen to French radio; I'm trying to learn French.
-
A good part of 'The Information' is about the transition from an oral to a literary culture. Books effected such a great transformation in the way we think about the world, our history, our logic, mathematics, you name it. I think we would be greatly diminished as a people and as a culture if the book became obsolete.
-
She too was standing in the lamp’s raw light. Her cheeks looked hollow, her lips too red, too bold.
-
Most people don't watch a movie four or five times; they watch it once.
