John Clute Quotes
Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.John Clute
Quotes to Explore
-
Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
Dale Earnhardt -
The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
Ralph Baer -
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
Barry Unsworth -
Everyone talks about the big three-oh with dread - but it's exciting. It feels like life is much more put together. Everyone's like, 'Wouldn't you like to be 20 again?' But no way.
Ophelia Lovibond -
You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.
J Mascis -
It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
Warren Farrell
-
I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.
Hannah Simone -
There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
Yoko Ono -
Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.
Najib Razak -
You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.
Taylor Swift -
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.
Zooey Deschanel -
I was born with this heart condition, but it's never affected me – I've been able to play every sport I wanted to, and the doctors were amazed.
Dan Feuerriegel
-
I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.
Felicity Jones -
I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
Dambisa Moyo -
In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
Vikram Seth -
I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.
Natalie Massenet -
I sort of wanted to reveal this other side of Asia: Southeast Asia, where the Chinese have been wealthy for generations and have different ways of relating to money. I wanted to sort of reveal this world to readers.
Kevin Kwan -
I owe everything to the musicians I work with.
Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
-
I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.
Charlie Kaufman -
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
Harry Emerson Fosdick -
Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.
John Clute