John Lanchester Quotes

The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

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• Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• Spontaneity is what travel is all about.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Travel
  • About
  • Spontaneity

• I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Independent

• I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Writing
  • You
  • Students

• I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Career
  • Interested

• I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Person

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • Early
  • Influenced
  • Ventures

• Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Way
  • Walking
  • Cognitive

• I will run against anybody.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Will
  • Run
  • Against

• We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Character
  • Want
  • Too Much

• A good fan base has developed around the Hurricanes, and I see the opportunity for continued growth for this franchise in the future.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Find

• We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • Rebuild

• Jeans fit the mature male one of two ways, both dirigible in nature. You make a public impression that's either Hindenburg or Goodyear blimp.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Nature
  • You
  • Jeans

• I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Farm

• Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • English
  • Independent

• Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Science
  • Trust
  • Yourself

• It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.

  

  Nicole Richie
  • Trouble
  • Little
  • Pattern

• I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.

  

  John Galliano
  • Money

• The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Sweet
  • Devil
  • Poison

• There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly - it is incredible to other men.

  

  Frederick William Robertson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Mind

• The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Truth