Jon McGregor Quotes

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

Jon McGregor

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• People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Live
  • House

• The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Family
  • Stability
  • Promotion

• I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Life
  • Thought

• Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Up
  • Hurt
  • Daughter

• Satire doesn't effect change.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Change
  • Effect
  • Satire

• A core focus of our effort is based on the recognition that our customers have varying needs, and one of their most important needs is to have choice.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Effort

• These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Women
  • Sometimes
  • Movies

• I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Time
  • Want
  • Development

• I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Music
  • Writing

• The sort of the most efficient way for online dating marketplace to evolve and, in fact, any marketplace to evolve is to have one really big market where people can enter and exit as they please, where people have really advanced search, sort, and filtering technology.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Technology
  • Search

• The great thing about 'Battlestar' was that it was basically 'Star Wars' but once a week, as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out. I was a huge 'Battlestar' fan.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Star

• I've probably got lots of heroes. One is a chap called Charles Campbell - he is a wonderful chap. We cooked together in a nightclub in Notting Hill. He told me brilliant stories of food and life and generally put me on the right track.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Life
  • Together
  • Food

• Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • Want
  • Honesty

• Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Time
  • Winning
  • Win

• Il faut avoir une haute idée, non pas de ce qu'on fait, mais de ce qu'on pourra faire un jour; sans quoi ce n'est pas la peine de travailler.

  

  Edgar Degas

• If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Equality

• Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Men
  • Blow

• For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Small

• The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised. We're not where we should be in terms of our national economies. We don't know how to get out of this malaise and I think we now have to consider more radical policies.

  

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell
  • Policies
  • Capitalist
  • Economies

• I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Time
  • World
  • Music

• The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Book
  • House
  • Library

• Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

  

  Jon McGregor