John Lanchester Quotes

Germany has to put the broader European interest on the same level as its own national interest, or the euro is toast.

John Lanchester

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• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Culture
  • Hand

• I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Time
  • Love
  • Think

• What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • People
  • Words
  • Focus

• He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Speak
  • Does

• Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Work
  • Want
  • Focus

• For musicians, Musikfest is the most cool event.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Cool
  • Musicians
  • Event

• There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Up
  • Different
  • Family

• At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Man
  • Dog
  • Lion

• I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Dream
  • Change
  • Losing

• I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Good
  • Why
  • Want

• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Sense

• Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • Poetry
  • Morality

• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Expression
  • Played
  • Relation

• All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so often packed our service trunks that the whole thing had become tedious.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • War
  • Service
  • Talk

• Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Life
  • Live
  • Heart

• The fashion cycle is outdated.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Fashion
  • Cycle
  • Outdated

• I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Being

• If Love dwelt not in Trouble, it could have nothing to love. But its substance which it loves, namely the poor soul, being in trouble and pain, it hath thence cause to love this its own substance and to deliver it from pain, that so itself may by it be again beloved.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • May
  • Soul
  • Pain

• There is no denying or hiding the fact that over the years I moved from well on the right of the Conservative Party, much much more to its left, and therefore to the centre of the poltical spectrum.

  

  John Bercow
  • Party

• Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

  

  Alfred Marshall

• The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

  

  Portia de Rossi
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• All men can live together, if they wish to.

  

  Josephine Baker
  • Live
  • Together
  • Wish

• Germany has to put the broader European interest on the same level as its own national interest, or the euro is toast.

  

  John Lanchester