John Lanchester Quotes

I think smartphones are one of humanity's most remarkable creations: computers are amazing enough, but a supercomputer you can carry in your pocket and communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere... it's no wonder they're troublingly addictive.

John Lanchester

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• Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Courage

• I really loved making 'Love, Nina.' I was in every scene, which was amazing. Bloody hell, what a job!

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Love
  • Job
  • Amazing

• People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Truth
  • Wonder

• I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Play
  • Wonder
  • Everyone

• At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Amazing
  • Dinner
  • Meet

• I think, with 'Pride,' I always knew that was something amazing because of the people who were in it and the story and the way it was written and who was directing. Anyone in that cast knew it was special.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Pride

• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Why
  • Democracy

• If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Game
  • Amazing

• Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Up
  • God
  • Art

• I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • True
  • Humanity
  • Rich

• When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when the leader has to step in and make a decision because there is no easy consensus, team members will accept that decision because they know that their ideas were heard and considered.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Team
  • Decision
  • Wonder

• It's amazing what you'll discover if you start exploring what God has placed within you.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Amazing
  • Start

• You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Children
  • Growing

• Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Different
  • Night
  • City

• We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Why
  • Pretty

• I want a girl who's passionate, driven - a girl who believes in herself.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Want
  • Girl
  • Passionate

• The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Understand

• With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Past
  • Best

• Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Interest
  • Test
  • Studies

• My flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London, is in the best building in the world. It's like a commune - everyone gets on - and on Friday evenings I often cook us all dinner.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • World
  • Best
  • Building

• 'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.

  

  Alexandra Bracken
  • Life
  • Period
  • Teenager

• My father served 26 years in the Air Force as a pilot and a pioneer in our missile programs. I learned early about the sacrifices a family makes when a member is repeatedly deployed, and also the fulfillment that comes from serving our country. My brother, my son and I all became Marines.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Country
  • Family
  • Father

• We worked so hard we almost stopped enjoying it.

  

  Susanna Hoffs

• I think smartphones are one of humanity's most remarkable creations: computers are amazing enough, but a supercomputer you can carry in your pocket and communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere... it's no wonder they're troublingly addictive.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Amazing
  • Humanity
  • Wonder