Jim Crace Quotes
All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life - from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book - I've succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I'm happier for it.
Quotes to Explore
-
Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
-
It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
-
I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.
-
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
-
Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
-
I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
-
The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
-
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
-
Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
-
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
-
I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
-
People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
-
D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
-
I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
-
A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
-
I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
-
But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
-
I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
-
As Commander in Chief, I will maintain the strongest military in the world, keep faith with our troops and go after those who would do us harm. But after a decade of war, I think we all recognize we've got to do some nation building here at home, rebuilding our roads, our bridges and especially caring for our Veterans who sacrificed so much for our freedom.
-
Too much attention and hoopla doesn't agree with my temperament.
-
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
-
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
-
If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
-
All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life - from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book - I've succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I'm happier for it.
