Simon Winchester Quotes

Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful are the same forces that will ultimately destroy them.

Simon Winchester

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• Fitzgerald was a modernist.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Fitzgerald
  • Modernist

• I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Real
  • Nice
  • Kind

• I'm kind of a private person.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Private Person

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

  

  Rain
  • People
  • Mother
  • Success

• I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Good
  • Think
  • Movies

• I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Great
  • Done
  • Think

• I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Rock
  • Look
  • Describe

• In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Done
  • Business
  • Strong

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Me
  • Rest

• In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Music
  • Home

• The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Men
  • Power
  • Opportunity

• I think people in electronic music are trying to get these big features: 'Oh my gosh, I'm gonna get the biggest pop star to feature on my track.'

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • New
  • New York

• The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done
  • Reward
  • Well Done

• I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • End

• I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Dumb
  • Oppose

• You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Destroy

• I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still a spirit beautiful and bright, yet I am I, who long to be lost as a light is lost in light.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Long
  • Beautiful
  • Spirit

• Lack of communication is the key to any successful relationship going wrong.

  

  Pepa DJ Spinderella
  • Relationship
  • Communication

• I was inspired by the androgyny of Yohji Yamanoto's designs to translate the clothing's dualities onto screen and image. I was playing with a multitude of influences for the S/S 2012 campaign, inspired by the modernist literature and architecture that is in itself a fusion of political and architectural mantras, both dreamy and concrete.

  

  Collier Schorr
  • Political
  • Design
  • Literature

• Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful are the same forces that will ultimately destroy them.

  

  Simon Winchester
  • Beautiful
  • Destroy
  • Places