Geoff Dyer Quotes

I felt I could no longer take the roller-coaster of emotions of travel, its surges of exaltation, its troughs of despondency, it’s large stretches of boredom and inconvenience (p. 202).

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• The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Church
  • Catholic
  • Colonial

• Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Dark
  • Name
  • Immigration

• The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Death
  • End
  • Stronger

• I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Will
  • Talk
  • Weapons

• I'm mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. I can take it. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Hurt
  • Person
  • Disagreeable

• I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'

  

  Sampha
  • World
  • School
  • Cool

• I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Morning

• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • I Believe

• I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Bad Boy

• In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Money
  • Hero
  • Television

• Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

  

  Lars Feld
  • Growth
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • History
  • Future
  • Change

• People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • Science
  • Win

• It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Different
  • Family
  • Experience

• I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Same

• Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Battle
  • Fought
  • Grandest

• I studied classical guitar in school, and that type of stuff has led to writing for Kronos.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Writing
  • School

• If you ask any of my kids today what their most important experience was in their education, they would say it was the travel and the ability to see and be in other cultures.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Kids

• People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

  

  Dagobert D. Runes
  • People
  • Home
  • Funny

• But he understood from hard-earned experience that true security comes through making peace with your neighbors.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Experience
  • True
  • Peace

• Iran continues to explicitly threaten to destroy the state of Israel, America's most important ally in the region. Its leaders continue to shout, 'Death to America.' If Iran wants to be a part of the world community, it should renounce such statements.

  

  Bill Flores
  • World
  • Important
  • America

• I felt I could no longer take the roller-coaster of emotions of travel, its surges of exaltation, its troughs of despondency, it’s large stretches of boredom and inconvenience (p. 202).

  

  Geoff Dyer
  • Travel