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

• A good debater is not necessarily an effective vote-getter: you can find a hole in your opponent's argument through which you could drive a coach and four ringing jingle bells all the way, and thrill at the crystallization of a truth wrung out from a bloody dialogue - which, however, may warm only you and your muse, while the smiling paralogist has in the meantime made votes by the tens of thousands.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Vote
  • Argument
  • Dialogue

• Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Spiritual
  • Unity

• But I saw Blake earlier and he said he and Nate were taking off for an overnight business thing. So..." "... you're just going to jump their fence and their pool," I finished for her. Silence. Then Jamie said, "It's twenty-five degrees! In December! Do you know what this means?" "The apocalypse?

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Mean
  • Silence
  • Pool

• Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Fishing

• When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

  

  Adam Selzer
  • Song
  • Dead
  • Cry

• 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