Geoff Dyer Quotes
Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'
Geoff Dyer
Quotes to Explore
I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
Naomi Judd
It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
Kate Christensen
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
Lafcadio Hearn
I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
Rafael Nadal
Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
Nate Ruess
Fun.
I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
Daniel Curtis Lee
Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
Karl Shapiro
I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
Hailee Steinfeld
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't want to hear about my death.
Oriana Fallaci
Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos
I'm not someone who wants to be second-guessed at all.
Dinesh Paliwal
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
No great work of art is ever finished.
Michelangelo
O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.
Thomas Carlyle
Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.
Ray Bradbury
Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'
Geoff Dyer
