Jon Ronson Quotes
Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.
Quotes to Explore
-
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
-
So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.
-
We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
-
For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
-
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
-
I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
-
One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
-
I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
-
There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
-
I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
-
Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
-
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
-
If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
-
The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
-
I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
-
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
-
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
-
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
-
When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
-
At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared after the way the boy had gone, and did not move to follow.
-
In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the book and follow it from the Tower of London via the Barbican to Ludgate Hill. You experience the real history of London.
-
I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.
-
Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.
