Jon Ronson Quotes

My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.

Jon Ronson

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• Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Growth
  • Depend
  • Global

• Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Writing
  • Democratic
  • Attitudes

• Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Always
  • Wine
  • Carry

• I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain, and he felt if his Captain could do it, then so could he, and that to me was when it really struck home.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Up
  • Home
  • Think

• I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

  

  Om Puri
  • Good
  • Working
  • Cinema

• I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't completely fit in. But at the same time, I can state the fact that I don't know of any good writer who is not an outsider writer.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Time
  • Good
  • Perspective

• I have a knife collection.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Collection
  • Knife

• You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

  

  Banksy
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying

• Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • People
  • Religious
  • Sometimes

• The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Terror
  • Afghanistan

• I never, ever, when I entered this process of running for president of the United States, thought I would be excluded from the debate table. Ever. What does two terms as governor get you?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Running
  • Thought
  • Process

• The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Family
  • Car
  • Phone

• The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Action

• I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Love
  • Play
  • Summer

• Donald Trump is Hillary Clinton’s Christmas gift wrapped up under a tree. I am the lump of coal in her stocking.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Trump
  • Tree

• To make the record, we now push a pencil or tap a typewriter. Then comes the process of digestion and correction, followed by an intricate process of typesetting, printing, and distribution. To consider the first stage of the procedure, will the author of the future cease writing by hand or typewriter and talk directly to the record?

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Hand

• The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Power
  • Value

• 'This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches-why are they called dog watches? Where, heu, heu, is the canine connection?'

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Why
  • Dog
  • Connection

• I think I speak not too strongly when I say that a church in the land without the Spirit of God is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember you stand in somebody else's way; you are a tree bearing no fruit, standing where another fruitful tree might grow.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • God
  • Remember
  • Church

• Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a deconstructionist with about the same effort and commitment required in choosing items from a menu.

  

  Edward Said
  • Believe
  • She
  • Effort

• I'm a good eater and like to make my own meals. I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Day
  • End

• A marathon is a like a roller coaster... You might toss your cookies, jump for joy, pass out, or have to close your eyes and just breathe. Even when it is going smooth, all of a sudden there can be a drop or even better, an acceleration. Hang on, stick to your plan, and enjoy every step of the way. I can't wait to do another....or maybe ten! Get after it!

  

  Carrie Tollefson
  • Enjoy
  • Plan
  • Marathon

• In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Free
  • Feel
  • London

• My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.

  

  Jon Ronson