Max Beerbohm Quotes

He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.

Max Beerbohm

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• Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Why
  • Know
  • Comedy

• I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Know
  • Hair
  • Drive

• For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear Weapons

• When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.

  

  Sampha
  • Want
  • Song
  • Sometimes

• Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Money

• There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Author
  • Changes
  • Alive

• Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Project
  • Originally

• Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Love
  • Learn
  • For Her

• Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • You
  • First
  • Prepare

• Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Life
  • Belief
  • Living

• It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Money
  • Cool
  • Little

• As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Want
  • Actor
  • Run

• If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Two
  • Thousand
  • Newspaper

• Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Good
  • Eating
  • Common Sense

• The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• Increasingly, the work I'm doing is in service to an idea rather than just to see what something looks like photographed. I'm trying to explore how I feel about something through photography.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Service

• And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • World
  • Long
  • Remember

• There's a kind of sick security some people get out of keeping away from people with disabilities. They are running away from any situation that's not totally pure and all-American and that requires them to do any thinking.

  

  Major Owens
  • People
  • Thinking
  • American

• Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.

  

  Plutarch
  • Earth

• We'd certainly have paid leave already by now, we'd have equal pay, we'd have a living minimum wage - a lot of things would change having that diversity of opinion in Washington. We certainly wouldn't be debating whether women should have access to birth control.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Women
  • Control
  • Opinion

• I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • School
  • Today

• An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • People
  • Art

• But don't worry... only yours is right.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Worry

• He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.

  

  Max Beerbohm