Geoff Dyer Quotes

I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock - the sword and sorcery novels - when I was about 13 or 14.

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• Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Like
  • Person
  • Smart

• If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Day

• IBM, Microsoft, the profit they made was larger than the top four banks in China put together... But where did the money go?

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Together
  • Profit

• Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dark
  • Never
  • Influence

• There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!

  

  Halima Aden
  • Different
  • Women
  • Hair

• In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Know
  • Fiction

• Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Imagination
  • Arts
  • Expand

• I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Technology
  • Compassion

• Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • She
  • Photography

• Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Them

• Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Successful
  • Product
  • Apple

• When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Basketball
  • Down
  • Gets

• I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Poets
  • Influenced
  • Painters

• Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Good
  • Books
  • Less

• While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Time
  • Work
  • Police

• Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Economy
  • Engine

• An artist reveals his naked soul in his work - and so, gentle reader, do you when you respond to it.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Work
  • Soul

• Beauty lies not in the things we see, but in the soul.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Soul
  • Lies

• However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused people to sort of say, what if we could establish religion on that same successful basis? What if we could have a good rational foundation for religious belief. What if religion could be sort of like science. Of course, that can't be.

  

  George Coyne
  • People
  • Religious
  • Successful

• If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Job

• I'm a pretty open person. Like, if I have good sex, then the next day I'm going to tell everyone I know about it.

  

  Melissa Joan Hart
  • Good
  • Knows
  • Persons

• I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock - the sword and sorcery novels - when I was about 13 or 14.

  

  Geoff Dyer