Jonathan Coe Quotes
Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.
Jonathan Coe
Quotes to Explore
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Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
Ian Ziering
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I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.
Ira Sachs
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I'd really love to get back into commercials, actually. I love how quick and breezy they are. And honestly, they pay really well.
Aarti Mann
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
Lana Turner
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I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.
Nate Berkus
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In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.
Naomi Klein
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I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?
Valerie Bertinelli
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Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
Carl Jung
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Perhaps this is because I'm from the generation that grew up watching 'The Jetsons' on TV, but I really thought we would be much more advanced in the areas of transportation and medicine.
Pat Cadigan
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Our most noted satirists are true columnists, and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented expose.
Umberto Eco
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I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go through, but it's things people I know or my family is going through, and I hear about it, and I think, 'That sounds like a great song.'
Becky G
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo
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I took a dozen of our top managers to Argentina, to the windswept mountains of the real Patagonia, for a walkabout. In the course of roaming around those wild lands, we asked ourselves why we were in business and what kind of business we wanted Patagonia to be. A billion-dollar company? Okay, but not if it meant we had to make products we couldn't be proud of. And we discussed what we could do to help stem the environmental harm we caused as a company. We talked about the values we had in common, and the shared culture that had brought everyone to Patagonia, Inc., and not another company.
Yvon Chouinard
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The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind herself that there is a subject so incalculably vast significance to humanity, about which virtually nothing is known because writers have not been mothers.
Alicia Ostriker
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Because I wasn't Asian enough- they decided to hire an Asian Consultant. Because I was fucking it up as an Asian. She would follow me around: 'Margaret! Use chopsticks! And when you're done eating, you can put them in your hair. Now you're wearing shoes, which is something we don't do in the house. Now I'm just going to leave this abacus right here...'
Margaret Cho
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We want a strong, vibrant economy for Britain so that we can set out a clear and affordable alternative programme for government.
Charles Kennedy
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He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.
Jonathan Coe
