Iris Murdoch Quotes

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Iris Murdoch

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• When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Time
  • You
  • Try

• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.

  

  Oren Peli
  • World
  • Friends
  • Doing

• I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Movies

• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • God
  • Belief
  • Dies

• So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Should
  • Writer
  • Vulgar

• The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.

  

  Edie Falco
  • High
  • Want
  • Interesting

• When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Small

• I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Play
  • Young
  • Expectations

• I would describe my sound as classic Motown.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Sound
  • Classic
  • Describe

• If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Children
  • War
  • Fight

• We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

  

  T-Pain
  • Learn
  • Surroundings
  • Adjust

• The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Great
  • Living
  • Possible

• I really don't believe in magic.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Believe
  • Magic
  • Really

• Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • You
  • Tears
  • Cry

• The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Party
  • Failure

• In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.

  

  Ted Allen
  • World
  • Work
  • Writing

• A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Important
  • Long
  • Pretty

• We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Jesus
  • Matter
  • Praying

• Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Man
  • Food
  • Meat

• In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Fate
  • England
  • India

• When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two characters have a moment, like everything is about time. And when you're writing a comic, everything is about space. It's how many panels to put on a page, when should you do a full page splash, what is the detail that you see in any particular image.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Writing
  • Characters
  • Image

• We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Future
  • Present
  • Better