Geoff Dyer Quotes

The best way to learn was by looking, to become articulate in the language of sight. The eye could learn to look after itself. (p. 180).

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• I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • High
  • Think
  • Bill Of Rights

• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Love

• In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Friend
  • Hand
  • Moments

• I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

  

  B. B. King
  • Small
  • First
  • Guitar

• You have to realize I like doing big movies that appear on a big screen. So the visuals and the audio have to be of a certain quality before I start to get excited about the thing.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Quality
  • Movies
  • Start

• Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

• I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Hate
  • Jealousy

• When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?

  

  Jackie Speier
  • People
  • Government
  • Serving

• I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • She
  • Voice
  • Holiday

• It's like an athlete. He has a string of hot years, and then he fades into nothingness. The actor doesn't necessarily fade into nothingness. After his hot years, he fades into a different category.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Different
  • Actor
  • Athlete

• My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Different
  • Mind

• A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead

• When I was 4 years old … I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Wolf

• They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • Time

• It is especially shocking that such a tragedy can go on, year after year, with the rest of the world paying so little attention to it. My Christmas message to Colombian refugees and to the millions of displaced people in Colombia is that the world has not totally forgotten them.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • World
  • Attention

• So for now I'd like gays to just be part of conservatism, just like women are, just like blacks are, without a special designation.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Women

• You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Singing
  • Teach
  • Jazz

• It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • War
  • Death
  • Respect

• I'm always on your side.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Side

• On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

  

  Arnold J. Toynbee
  • Up
  • Power
  • Nature

• For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

  

  Annette Funicello

• The best way to learn was by looking, to become articulate in the language of sight. The eye could learn to look after itself. (p. 180).

  

  Geoff Dyer