John Irving Quotes
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed.
John Irving
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. Forster
Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
Viggo Mortensen
Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
Umberto Eco
Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
Quentin Blake
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
Park Shin-hye
Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
Pamela Meyer
I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.
Jonathan Krohn
I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
Patrick deWitt
The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
Bartlett Sher
If I am in a beautiful place, but I don't like the people, I am miserable.
Alber Elbaz
I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.
Alexander Payne
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed.
John Irving