Simon Winchester Quotes

To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

Simon Winchester

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• There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

  

  Aaliyah
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  • Myself
  • My Life

• I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

  

  Iman
  • Girl
  • Thought
  • Treat

• I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?

  

  Halsey
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• I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Long
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• I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Why
  • Body

• I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Situation
  • Ego

• I actually wanted to go to medical school. I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to study. And I really wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer. And I was always very good at the sciences. And I thought I would go and try and discover the cure for cancer.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Good
  • School
  • Study

• I like the feeling of being dominated

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Sexy

• The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Soul
  • Temple

• I am always for the man who wishes to work.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • Always
  • Wishes

• A friend is another I.

  

  Aristotle
  • Friend
  • Another

• I cannot fight everyone at once. I have to take one at a time.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Fight
  • Everyone
  • Cannot

• Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Fashion

• The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Knowledge
  • Person
  • Library

• O that a lady, of one man refused, Should of another therefore be abused!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Should
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• People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Respect

• Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Reality
  • Nothing
  • Importance

• I'm much more optimistic about the future than I probably was.

  

  Norman Pearlstine
  • Future
  • Optimistic
  • Probably

• I hate the thought that someone had picked up one of my song records and was really excited about it, and walks [out of] a record shop with On Land and is disappointed because it isn't what they wanted. So, I try to make signs, graphically and visually, to say to people "Okay, this is this department of my work and this is this other department of my work." And of course I'm very pleased if people like all of them, but I don't want them to feel deceived at any point.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • I Hate
  • Department

• An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Character
  • Destiny
  • Habits

• To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.

  

  Simon Winchester
  • Habits
  • Disciplined
  • Manuscripts