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

• My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Nice
  • Moments
  • Fire

• 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

• If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Street

• Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Science
  • Magic
  • Sufficiently

• 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 have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Nice

• 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

• 'Let’s waste a little time, hmm?''A nice euphemism, sir,' she mused distantly. He smiled. 'Come and help me think of better ones.' She smiled and they both looked at each other. There was a long pause.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Time
  • Long
  • She

• 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

• Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men, A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth Boasts all the wonders which the seas bring forth, Give it Endymion's love, whose ev'ry tear Would more enrich the skilful jeweller.

  

  William Davenant
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Nice

• God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.

  

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot
  • God
  • Help

• I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Think
  • Change
  • Humor

• But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.

  

  Neil Innes
  • Song
  • Silly

• When I was a kid, I was roaming through Glastonbury Festival at eight years old, on my own. I say 'on my own', but I was probably with my oldest sister Sarah, and she would have been 13 or 14 at the time, so she'd have been walking us around. But I got to go places and meet people, and was trusted a lot, without a doubt.

  

  Alfie Allen
  • People
  • Time
  • She

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

  

  Humphrey Carpenter
  • Nice
  • Magic
  • Tricks