Philipp Meyer Quotes

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

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• I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Me
  • Training
  • Hard

• Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Positive
  • Sex
  • Islam

• I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Love
  • Think
  • Start

• I'm the type of person who, if somebody offers me a free meal, I get excited because you never know where your next free meal is going to come from.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Free
  • Know
  • Me

• It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • American
  • Think
  • Fall

• Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.

  

  Adam Braun
  • People
  • Long
  • High

• The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Job
  • Interesting
  • Most

• With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Want
  • Know

• There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Young
  • Losing
  • Sibling

• Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Why
  • Culture
  • Forever

• A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Things
  • Very
  • Well

• For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Work
  • Moral
  • Inspiration

• In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Content
  • Japan

• There are no second acts in American lives.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • American
  • Lives
  • Second

• I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Want
  • You
  • Style

• We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Father
  • Want

• There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Lyrics

• Emily, I saw you last night by the riverI dreamed you were skipping little stones across the surface of the waterFrowning at the angle where they were lost, and slipped under foreverIn a mud cloud, mica-spangled, like the sky'd been breathing on a mirror.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Night
  • Lost
  • Sky

• By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.

  

  Esther Williams
  • Light
  • Rings

• There is nothing which an untrained mind shows itself more hopelessly incapable, than in drawing the proper general conclusions from its own experience. And even trained minds, when all their training is on a special subject, and does not extend to the general principles of induction, are only kept right when there are ready opportunities of verifying their inferences by facts.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Experience
  • Opportunities
  • Conclusions

• I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Truth
  • Adventist

• Jordan Vogt-Roberts directed me in 'Kings of Summer,' which was his debut feature. I got to witness the passion and hunger that first-time directors bring to projects, and ever since, then I've been very intrigued when I've come across a project with a less experienced director.

  

  Erin Moriarty
  • Director
  • Experienced
  • Feature

• When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails.

  

  Philipp Meyer