John Boyne Quotes

What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

John Boyne

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• Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Faith

• I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.

  

  Vikram Rohit Shetty
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Theatre

• The thing that has always struck me is that there has always been a bit of a hole at YouTube when it comes to authenticity, human emotion, fun and play.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Fun
  • Human
  • Emotion

• Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!

  

  Kate Ashfield
  • Time
  • House
  • Best

• Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Dream
  • New
  • Really

• Be realistic and truthful - and tell Hong Kong businessmen honestly that they should go for long-term investments since it is unlikely money can be made in the short haul.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Long
  • Money
  • Short

• Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • See
  • Relationships

• Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • Care
  • Listening

• The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.

  

  Randall Terry
  • God
  • Law
  • Christian

• Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great.

  

  Randy West
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Game

• I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Life
  • Moment
  • Prejudice

• You are only as good as the people you dress.

  

  Halston
  • People
  • Good
  • Dress

• I had braces for six years! Kids would call me 'big teeth' or 'rabbit teeth.'

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Years

• You could take me anywhere. You could take me to the moon, and believe me, everybody's going to try to take a trip to the moon to watch me fight.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Fight
  • Moon

• While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Nation

• I do absolutely nothing, actually, believe it or not. People will probably hate me for saying that, but I guess I'm one of those lucky horrible people who, no matter what I eat, I don't gain a pound. My whole family is just like that. They're all skinny and tall, and I guess, so am I.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Believe
  • Family

• By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Time
  • Understanding
  • Market

• That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on the album in 'Working class hero'. As I told Rolling Stone, it's the same people who have the power, the class system didn't change one little bit.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Choice
  • Album
  • Outlet

• Had a buddy of mine caught a rainbow trout, and threw it back. He said he didn't want a gay fish.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Gay
  • Rainbow

• The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.

  

  Eric Bell Thin Lizzy
  • Think
  • Move
  • Geometry

• Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.

  

  John Lahr
  • Time
  • Comedy
  • Inspired

• The Nazi agitator whom, many years ago, I heard proclaim to a wildly cheering peasants’ meeting: ‘We don’t want lower bread prices, we don’t want higher bread prices, we don’t want unchanged bread prices-we want National-Socialist bread prices,’ came nearer explaining fascism than anybody I have heard since.

  

  Peter Drucker

• What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

  

  John Boyne