Jamie Muir Quotes

King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

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• The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Learned
  • Ignorant

• Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Life
  • American
  • Fear

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Space
  • Choices
  • Page

• A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Strong
  • Energy

• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • God
  • Religion
  • Insult

• We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • People
  • May
  • True

• Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Together
  • Happy

• Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Never
  • Voice

• I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • World
  • Day

• Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Long
  • Health
  • Thought

• I own a home in Kyoto, Japan actually on the temple on grounds in Nanzenji that is going to become a Japanese art museum.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Art
  • Home
  • Japanese

• The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Birth
  • Union
  • African

• The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Country
  • May
  • Fear

• I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

  

  Yuna
  • Cool
  • Singing
  • Old

• I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Trying
  • Funny

• I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Simple
  • Possible
  • Complexity

• I also found being called Sir rather silly.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Being
  • Silly
  • Rather

• Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Vision
  • Only
  • Surrealism

• King has absolute power. And what he has given he can taken away.

  

  Anne Boleyn
  • Power
  • Taken
  • King

• Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Leather

• I'm indie through and through. I've always gone out with boys in bands.

  

  Alexa Chung

• There are certain cities around the world where it's possible to learn about tomorrow's technology as it's being developed today.

  

  Jan Chipchase
  • World
  • Today
  • Technology

• King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

  

  Jamie Muir
  • Band
  • Famous
  • King