Melvyn Bragg Quotes

I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament.

Melvyn Bragg

• Personal
• Resurrection
• Testament

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Live
  • Taken
  • Streets

• The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Work
  • Charity
  • Big

• I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • Think
  • You

• Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • May
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• I've been fighting amidst a lot of opposition from both Hillary Clinton as well as some Republicans who wanted to send arms to the allies of ISIS. ISIS rides around in a billion dollars worth of U.S. Humvees. It's a disgrace. We've got to stop - we shouldn't fund our enemies, for goodness sakes.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Goodness

• If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Help
  • Moral
  • End

• If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • House
  • Door

• The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Game
  • Travel
  • Blind

• Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Nothing
  • Succeed
  • Without

• I'd always loved watching YouTube videos, and that's what inspired me to make them myself. Initially I was drawn to makeup tutorials – I learned everything I know about makeup from YouTube.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Inspired
  • Makeup
  • Loved

• Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • God
  • Man
  • Almighty

• I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Myself
  • Grow
  • Plants

• I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Nice
  • Myself
  • Salad

• Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Way
  • Environment
  • Individual

• I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Change
  • Artist
  • Politics

• I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Father
  • Want
  • Myself

• I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Live
  • You
  • Play

• All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Love
  • Art

• I love not to be busy in a certain way.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Way
  • Certain
  • Busy

• In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Soul
  • Song
  • Stories

• Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moving
  • Tree
  • Christmas

• Leaving Interscope was not a personal thing. These record companies are a certain kind of machine, and we weren't able to function in it.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Kind
  • Leaving
  • Personal

• I don't believe in a personal God, no. And I don't believe in resurrection as it is in the New Testament.

  

  Melvyn Bragg
  • Personal
  • Resurrection
  • Testament