C.P. Snow Quotes

Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

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• I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Great
  • Heart

• Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • History
  • Me
  • Big

• Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Long
  • Business
  • Career

• The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
  • Country
  • Need

• I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Think
  • Famous
  • Paris

• As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Anything
  • Cause
  • Symptom

• I think there's many a slaveholder'll get to Heaven. They don't know better. They acts up to the light they have.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Up
  • Think
  • Light

• A man in debt is so far a slave.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Debt

• Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Man
  • Science

• When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Team

• Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • People
  • Work
  • Bad

• It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Time
  • Great
  • Earth

• It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photography
  • Stills
  • Photographer

• Aggression is not a breed thing. It's a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you.

  

  Cesar Millan
  • Energy
  • Dog
  • Human

• Part of me wants nothing to do with any Hollywood. But another part of me wants to go there. I feel like I could be successful at it.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Successful

• I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Character
  • Calling
  • Compliment

• One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Character
  • Horror
  • Mexican

• It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It was a man. His hair was golden, glowing bright as a bonfire in the light of the candle. And his features were fair, I suppose, but he was a stranger and that somehow was the greatest shock of all- that I had been lying all these months beside a complete stranger.

  

  Edith Pattou
  • Monster
  • Horror
  • Stranger

• Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

  

  C.P. Snow
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