Peter Carey Quotes

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

Peter Carey

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• The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Years
  • End
  • Fast

• How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Band

• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Dog

• It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Earth
  • Conversation
  • Rise

• From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Long
  • History
  • Lies

• When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Best
  • Surround Yourself

• I was a very rotund child with short hair, and for some reason, I always had black ballet shoes. I was like the Wednesday Addams of ballet.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Black
  • Hair
  • Child

• The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Fear
  • Role
  • Plays

• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Believe
  • Man

• Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Music
  • Love
  • Know

• Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Greatest
  • Winner
  • Seen

• I'm a woman who is very confident with the body, with my body.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Woman
  • Body
  • Confident

• Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History
  • Always
  • Dignity

• Always take earplugs and an eye mask. It doesn't matter where you are. Even if you're in the best hotel, if there's road works outside, then you're screwed. So I take earplugs and an eye mask with me wherever I go.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Best
  • Road
  • Eye

• The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Bad

• People think it's very strange because I love whale watching - you don't see whales a lot where I'm from.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Think
  • Strange

• I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Education
  • Eyes

• 'The mission I am on overrides all personal debts and loyalties.''If so,' said the stranger with fierce certainty, 'it is an immoral mission.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Fierce

• I believe a No. 1 song starts happening when it's believable and validating.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Believe
  • Song

• From whence it happens, that they which trust to books, do as they that cast up many little sums into a greater, without considering whether those little sums were rightly cast up or not; and at last finding the error visible, and not mistrusting their first grounds, know not which way to clear themselves; but spend time in fluttering over their books, as birds that entering by the chimney, and finding themselves enclosed in a chamber, flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Books
  • Happens
  • Consider

• I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

  

  Pierre Salinger
  • America
  • Texas
  • November

• What is deferred is not avoided.

  

  Thomas More
  • Avoided

• The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

  

  Augustus Hare
  • Light
  • Heaven
  • Wise

• I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

  

  Peter Carey