Humphrey Carpenter Quotes

The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

Humphrey Carpenter

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• I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Work
  • Nice

• I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Magic

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Great
  • Man
  • Words

• It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Winning

• I'm just really trying to say what I really mean, which is: 'Your eye's on the prize, your eye's on the future. It's nice to know that a lot of wonderful things have happened to your life and that so much of it has been successful. That's great, but the work is really what makes it fun - and that has to be the future.'

  

  Harold Prince
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I always hold doors open, I always try to be nice.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Nice
  • Try
  • Doors

• People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Children
  • Hope

• The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Time
  • Great
  • Book

• Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • People
  • Nature
  • Technology

• It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Job
  • Success

• My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Mom

• It's all magic.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Magic

• I think perhaps it wasn’t a good idea to read aloud Gibbon to me in the evenings, because if it’s nice and hot by the fire, there’s something about Gibbon that does, rather, make you go to sleep.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Sleep

• I like a bush. A nice big, hairy, stinky, smelly fucking bush. And I hate when they put cologne on it. They dummy it up with cologne like you don’t know where you are. I like that nice natural scent of salmon.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Nice

• In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each lavatory I happen to have occupied. When people drop paper on the ground, and everything like that, I pick it up, put it in the lavatory, and make that room look nice.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• I wash my face with Creme de la Mer cleansing foam. I love Charlotte Tilbury Magic Cream - it's got SPF15 in it, which I love - and then I'll use a little eye cream by Sisley, which I'm obsessed with. That's what I generally use every day.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Magic

• A nice pair of Jimmy Choos never hurt anyone.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Nice
  • Hurt

• It always feels nice to be associated with a team you share a great bond with.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Great
  • Team
  • Nice

• In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.

  

  Gregg Allman
  • Work
  • Real
  • Business

• President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans. Our rights are not given to us by government, they are endowed by our Creator.

  

  Denis McDonough
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, 'How do you break so many stories?' it's because I build relationships. I do it the old-fashioned way, and I build sourcing relationships, and then I take advantage of those relationships over time.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Time
  • Building

• If you want to keep the relationships you have, it's best not to talk about them.

  

  David Brock

• It is empirically indecent to make fun of the disabled... That's just indecent.

  

  Jake Tapper
  • Fun

• The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

  

  Humphrey Carpenter
  • Nice
  • Magic
  • Tricks