Jonathan Coe Quotes

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

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• Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Important
  • Education
  • City

• Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • Find
  • Fame
  • Fortune

• A good leader must be fair.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Fair

• I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Book

• You just make sure you don't screw it up. It's going to work as long as you don't mess it up. Hopefully you have plenty of those moments in a big comedy.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Why
  • She
  • Mom

• During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Friends
  • War
  • Hand

• When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • School
  • Professional
  • Old

• Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Character
  • Doing
  • Looking

• Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Perfect
  • Crazy

• I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

  

  Om Puri
  • Life
  • inspirational
  • My Life

• Blood relatives often have nothing to do with family, and similarly, family is about who you choose to make your life with.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Life
  • Family
  • Relationship

• My wife changes the way that I dress. She makes me dress nicer than I want to dress. I feel like I perpetually dress like a 14-year-old boy, and she makes me stand up straight and wear clean clothes.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • She
  • Wife

• You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Great
  • Different
  • Important

• Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Team
  • Progress
  • Intelligent

• «It is the neighbor who chooses the mayor and it is the mayor who wants the neighbors the mayor.»

  

  Mariano Rajoy

• Insatiate archer! could not one suffice?Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain;And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn.

  

  Edward Young
  • Peace
  • Moon
  • Archer

• History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • World
  • Great
  • History

• And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.

  

  Cody Horn
  • World
  • Happy
  • Model

• The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Fun
  • Risk
  • Failure

• There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.

  

  Walter Lord
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

  

  Daniel Keys Moran
  • Character

• It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Age
  • Play
  • Impossible

• Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

  

  Jonathan Coe