Geoff Dyer Quotes

As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.

Geoff Dyer

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• One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Speak
  • Year

• Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Day
  • Romantic
  • Holidays

• I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Important
  • Actor
  • Communication

• I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Husband

• President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Freedom
  • Support
  • Government

• I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Myself
  • Ideas
  • Laugh

• My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Death
  • Dad
  • Car

• I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • World
  • Work
  • Want

• Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you?

  

  Ralph Ellison

• 'I have not slept well since I first entered my brother’s dungeons. While my comfort has improved since then, worry has taken the place of hanging in chains as a denier of rest.''There are many kinds of imprisonment,' Jarnauga nodded.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Rest
  • Taken
  • Worry

• 'I ignore religions,' said Brawne Lamia. 'I do not succumb to them.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Ignore

• I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

  

  Andy Warhol

• A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Work
  • Music
  • Words

• En art comme en amour, l'instinct suffit.

  

  Anatole France
  • Art

• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Authority
  • Ethics
  • Concern

• The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

  

  Adrian Cronauer

• The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • God
  • Men

• I'm pretty much on all social media, but Instagram is the coolest, and I use it the most because I take a lot of pictures and I like to post them, but I link them all to each one.

  

  Lexi Thompson
  • Pretty

• When blame has been assigned, the story is over.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Stories
  • Blame

• I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Boy

• If any one age could be singled out as the worst in the history of Christendom, it would be the administration of Pope Pius XII, the most reactionary head of the most reactionary single force in the world - a force that binds men's minds, a force that divides them, a force that chains them so that they are unable to think and act for themselves.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • World
  • Men
  • History

• These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished.

  

  C.B. Cebulski
  • Job
  • Break
  • Comic Book

• His Osama bin Laden excessive use of terror, including numerous attacks that indiscriminately killed many women and children, and of course many Muslims, has hurt the attractiveness of his message.

  

  Joseph Nye
  • Children
  • Hurt
  • Terror

• As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.

  

  Geoff Dyer