Jonathan Coe Quotes

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.

Jonathan Coe

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• I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Intelligent
  • River
  • Reflected

• Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Think
  • Always
  • Emotional

• I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Progress

• I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Death
  • Education

• Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Nature

• Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Men
  • Women
  • Special

• Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Movie
  • You
  • Funny

• We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Political
  • Philosophy
  • Tools

• I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Think
  • Brain
  • Memory

• People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.

  

  Vince Gilligan
  • People
  • Long
  • Change

• When I was young, I made all of my own clothes.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Young
  • Clothes
  • Own

• In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I constantly compare myself to artists who have, like, 10 times the budget I do. My mind is the biggest challenge, honestly.

  

  Verite
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• Widowed wife and wedded maid.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Wife

• Good critics, who have stamped out poets' hope,Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state,Good patriots, who for a theory risked a cause.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Good
  • Hope

• Sin esa tonta vanidad que es el mostrarnos y que es de todos y de todo, no veríamos nada y no existiría nada.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Reality
  • Poetry

• When it became clear that I was going to remain #NeverTrump, conservatives I had known and worked with for more than two decades organized boycotts of my show.

  

  Charlie Sykes

• Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

  

  Boyle Roche
  • Air
  • Sky

• Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • People
  • Religion
  • Afraid

• What passes for patriotism is now largely measured by the flag pins in our lapels and the mouthing of pride and faith in our soldiers, sailors, and aviators. Having long since lost track of the precepts of American democracy, we've devolved into a cult of military, with its own blind faith and liturgy...

  

  Bob Garfield
  • Faith
  • Democracy
  • Pride

• Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Together
  • Daddy
  • Cream

• Frankly, the trouble with winter is, it is all backbone. It is fleshless, insensate, with neither a breast to be leaned on nor a heart to love and ache and, if need be, break, nor any kindly hand to fondle and caress like a sea-wave on a sunny shore half asleep.

  

  William Alfred Quayle
  • Trouble
  • Winter
  • Backbone

• The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.

  

  Jonathan Coe