Simon Callow Quotes

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

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• I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • City
  • Race
  • Meetings

• Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Better

• I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Work
  • Me
  • Skill

• I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Believe
  • Art
  • Start

• Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Help
  • Never
  • Yourself

• I don't really want to repeat myself. For the most part, I always want to be doing something new. But there aren't a lot of gritty roles out there for women, and they are so fun to play, everyone wants them.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Myself

• No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Trying
  • Matter
  • Say

• Steve Martin's comedy albums are so ridiculous.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Comedy
  • Albums
  • Ridiculous

• Fame is not just about being able to get out of a limo in Leicester Square, it's about trying to get into your house when there are eight photographers outside. When you think about being famous, you don't think about all that stuff. You think about the glamour.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Trying
  • House
  • Famous

• See you told me I would lose but I won. I might cop a million Jimmy Choos just for fun.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Fun
  • Cop
  • Materialistic

• We have the ability, at such high fidelity, to simulate the physical world through computers. But when the spiritual world or human behavior comes into play, we don't have a very good model for that at all.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • World
  • Good
  • High

• Jesus said, 'Go ... and make disciples,' not converts to your opinions.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Jesus
  • Opinions
  • Go

• We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.

  

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer
  • Space
  • Needs
  • Creative

• Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Heart
  • True
  • Light

• Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Great
  • Success
  • Effort

• In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is no destruction or decomposition of pure air and the increase in weight of the body burnt is exactly equal to the weight of air destroyed or decomposed. The body burnt changes into an acid by addition of the substance that increases its weight. Pure air is a compound of the matter of fire or of light with a base. In combustion the burning body removes the base, which it attracts more strongly than does the matter of heat, which appears as flame, heat and light.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Light
  • Air
  • Fire

• Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Literature
  • Lying
  • Romantic

• And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Death
  • Friend

• I think people like us because of the culture of trust we have in the site, the culture of goodwill -- and people manage to get stuff done.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • People
  • Done
  • Culture

• I am a child of Nature, and take after my mother.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Nature

• Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Necessity
  • According
  • Liking

• To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the flesh, milk, and eggs of horribly abused animals exposes a disconnect that is so fundamental that it renders our efforts absurd, hypocritical, and doomed to certain failure.

  

  Will Tuttle
  • Justice
  • Failure
  • Animal

• Good breeding doesn't mean that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice when someone else does.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Good

• I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

  

  Simon Callow
  • Humans
  • Situation
  • Answers