Jon Ronson Quotes

But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

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• Most police officers are good cops and good people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Good
  • Police

• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Man
  • Library

• Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Ability
  • Over
  • Disability

• I'm involved with Kid One Transport and Studio by the Tracks in Alabama. Kid One literally transports kids to better health by giving them transportation they may need to get medical care. Studio by the Tracks is an art outlet for mentally challenged children.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Children
  • Art
  • May

• You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Want
  • Clock

• The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Remember
  • Beauty

• I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Change
  • Christian
  • Evangelist

• You're not a slave to those test audiences.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Slave
  • Test

• The flames of the heart consumed me, and the mindIs but a foolish wind.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Heart
  • Wind

• You remember, we were sittin' there, by the water,You put your arm around me for the first time.You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter.You are the best thing that's ever been mine.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Water

• I was truly sorry for Mr. Bryan. But I consoled myself by thinking of the years through which he had busied himself tormenting intelligent professors with impudent questions about their faith, and seeking to arouse the ignoramuses and bigots to drive them out of their positions.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Intelligent

• There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Art
  • Nature

• Without alienation, there can be no politics.

  

  Arthur Miller

• His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Life
  • Sleep
  • Vision

• Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Kids
  • Hope

• Conflict, of course, comes about because of the misuse of power and the clash of ideals, not to mention the inflammatory activities of unscrupulous and bigoted leaders. But it also arises, tragically, from an inability to understand and from the powerful emotions which, out of misunderstanding, lead to distrust and fear.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Powerful

• They weren't headlining. They were third down the bill

  

  Peter Campbell McNeish Buzzcocks
  • Third

• Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Important
  • Long
  • Writing

• From about 700 B.C. to A.D. 500, the vast territory of Scythia, stretching from the Black Sea to China, was home to diverse but culturally related nomads. Known as Scythians to Greeks, Saka to the Persians, and Xiongnu to the Chinese, the steppe tribes were masters of horses and archery.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Home
  • Black
  • Sea

• Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Great
  • Distance

• But on the extremist side I didn't get any rejections at all. Everyone agreed to talk to me.

  

  Jon Ronson