Michael Bond Quotes

I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.

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• I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Writing
  • Now
  • Plan

• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Time
  • Great
  • Literature

• All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Like

• Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Fear
  • Feelings
  • More

• The advertising market in China is big and is still growing at a considerable pace. While online video is emerging as a mainstream advertising solution, it still represents a relatively small portion of advertising budget in China.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Small
  • Growing
  • Advertising

• I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Trying

• I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Culture

• I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Perfect
  • Comedy
  • Thought

• If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Lost
  • Reflection

• Well it is. It is a religion with me. It's a way of life. A religion is a way of life, isn't it?

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Life

• Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.

  

  Arthur Balfour
  • People
  • Political

• This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • May
  • Age
  • Future

• Roger Goodell is doing his job. He's front office. Whatever he says goes, and I'll leave it at that.

  

  Lawrence Timmons
  • Job

• I've been married for 46 years, and I live in a nice house, my grass is always cut, I pay my bills, and my cat loves me!

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Live
  • House
  • Nice

• A religion without rules or God isn't sustainable.

  

  David Harsanyi
  • God

• It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories.

  

  Demian Bichir
  • Work
  • Memories
  • Sad

• It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.

  

  Enzo Ferrari
  • True

• It's a fist fight - the idea is to go out there and impose my will.

  

  Eddie Alvarez

• I recognize that it is through the engagement with my craft - by recognizing an idea and drawing it out, building physical models, collaborating with experts, constructing the sculptures at urban scale, and maintaining them through years of weather and interaction with the public - that a new art for cities has become real.

  

  Janet Echelman
  • Real
  • Art
  • Drawing

• Nothing else is needed to quiet all your fears, but just this, that GOD IS.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • God
  • Fears

• We need to work our level best in this legislative session to help grow Montana's economy, so that grandchildren can stay in Montana, grandchildren can visit their grandmother and grandfather by driving across town, not flying across the country.

  

  Brian Schweitzer
  • Work
  • Country
  • Help

• I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.

  

  Michael Bond
  • Flying
  • Civilised