Geoff Dyer Quotes

I've always had this belief that you want to write about universal truths.

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• I'm not Cinderella.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Cinderella

• Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Alone
  • Wall

• I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Energy

• In Chicago, they die for their teams.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Die
  • Chicago
  • Teams

• Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Children
  • Real
  • House

• I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • World
  • Play
  • Bee

• The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Free
  • Chinese
  • New

• I think I've definitely found a niche working in comedy, but dramatic films are what brought me here. After I saw 'Titanic' in the theater, I got the bug.

  

  Carly Craig
  • Think
  • Me
  • Comedy

• Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary.

  

  Achille Maramotti
  • Fashion
  • Clothes
  • Crisis

• A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • Country
  • Dream
  • Film

• I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Think
  • Girl
  • Best

• For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Women
  • Think
  • Man

• Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Father
  • Science
  • Present

• With the sense of sight, the idea communicates the emotion, whereas, with sound, the emotion communicates the idea, which is more direct and therefore more powerful.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Powerful

• If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for 'deep truths' that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.

  

  Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • People
  • Important
  • Mind

• How my soul hates This language, Which makes life itself a lie,Flattering dust with eternity.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Soul

• Di voce in voce e d'una in altra orecchiaIl grido e 'l bando per la terra scorse.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I am always telling students that a story is not just words. You can tell a story with dance or paint or music. Kids and adults are visual learners, auditory learners. There are those of us who need to touch it. Storytelling encompasses so much more than words on paper.

  

  Deborah Wiles
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Words

• And winning is a huge thing for me.

  

  LeBron James
  • Winning

• It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Time
  • Theatre

• When you're making music, you don't look at what's going on in the studio next to you.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Music

• It?s been a bitter pill to swallow.

  

  Chris Botti Incognito
  • Bitter
  • Swallow
  • Pill

• I've always had this belief that you want to write about universal truths.

  

  Geoff Dyer