John Lanchester Quotes
I'm a huge fan of Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' movies - I went to all three of them on the day they opened and have seen all of them several times since.
Quotes to Explore
-
Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
-
The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
-
I'm no producer's kid.
-
The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
-
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
-
I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
-
I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
-
I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
-
A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
-
Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
-
I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
-
In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.
-
I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
-
Israel now has a reputation around the world of being not just a place to develop products and technology but to develop ideas.
-
When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
-
I do a lot of damage to my hair every day because of my work. I just noticed this huge change. It started getting thinner and it started falling out. I hit 30, and I literally felt like I was balding!
-
When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
-
Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
-
Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.
-
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
-
A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.
-
I love sport as long as it's kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.
-
Joy, in Nature's wide dominion,Mightiest cause of all is found;And 'tis joy that moves the pinion,When the wheel of time goes round
-
I'm a huge fan of Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' movies - I went to all three of them on the day they opened and have seen all of them several times since.
