Geoff Dyer Quotes

I really have to give the Navy all the credit it deserves. They were so flexible and accommodating, given that everybody on board had better things to worry about than this person coming on board who's just going to be in the way, really.

Geoff Dyer

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• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • World
  • Political
  • Party

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Time
  • Always
  • Matter

• I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Hate
  • Parks

• Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.

  

  Larry Craig
  • People
  • Political
  • Flag

• I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Loved
  • Favourite
  • Fabulous

• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Music
  • Die
  • Proud

• I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Want
  • Write
  • Walk

• I don't want to become known as just a body.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Want
  • Body
  • Just

• You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • World
  • Important
  • Love

• In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Food
  • California
  • Vote

• I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Time
  • Speak

• English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • History
  • Always
  • English

• I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Hall

• It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • More
  • Praise
  • Train

• I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Pretty
  • You
  • See

• I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

  

  Carol Vorderman
  • Children
  • Done
  • Home

• How we fund transportation in this country is broken. You all pay a gasoline tax, right? Well, cars go farther, we get electric cars, and so on. And then we do more with the money than just build roads. We do bike lanes and mass transit.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Country
  • Money
  • Broken

• I was this guy who'd been racing around down there, on that field in 1999, running straight over people, scoring tries, winning games, having fun. And I ended up so sick I couldn't even run past a little baby.

  

  Jonah Lomu
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• I really have to give the Navy all the credit it deserves. They were so flexible and accommodating, given that everybody on board had better things to worry about than this person coming on board who's just going to be in the way, really.

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Worry