Sebastian Faulks Quotes

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

Sebastian Faulks

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• The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Islamic
  • Move

• I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Wish
  • Easy
  • I Wish

• I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Perfect
  • Husband
  • Blessed

• I was not really as good as I should have been.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Good
  • Should
  • Been

• I find that I can't work and listen to radio – either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Work
  • Like
  • Listen

• I don't sit there writing songs, thinking, 'This would be good for Rihanna.' I don't want to be pitching out like that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Bad
  • Responsibility
  • Admit

• There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

  

  Mac Davis
  • Song
  • Black
  • Morning

• In a free country, government is a dull and onerous responsibility. It is a parent-teacher conference.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Free
  • Responsibility

• I'm never in control of my time during the workday.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Time
  • Control
  • Never

• Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • You
  • Doing
  • More

• Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say, Laura Bush had that much effect on the Bush administration. She certainly, you know, seems to be a nice person who I think the public likes. But I can't really put my finger on any huge impact she's had.

  

  Gail Collins
  • She
  • Think
  • Nice

• An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • You
  • Mistake
  • Become

• Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Violence

• From one moment to another one can lose heart.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Heart

• Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Men
  • Children
  • Society

• I told about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. 'It's that way with people, too,' he said, 'only with people it's sometimes that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.'

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People

• To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?

  

  Burnie Burns
  • World
  • Game
  • Amazing

• I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as there is in the theatre. So I do a lot of theatre, but really, as with most actors, I just love going from one to another. It's stimulating, it's diverting, it's a different way of life, and you know, I dearly like a good mix.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Different

• I enjoy multi-tasking, so I want to do a lot of different things. I want to keep all the plates spinning.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Different

• If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

  

  Lucinda Williams
  • Success

• I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Singing
  • Summer
  • Bored

• Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

  

  Little Richard
  • Mother
  • Attention
  • Company

• Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • Struggle
  • Lonely
  • Organisms