Will Self Quotes

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

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• Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • History
  • Culture
  • Debate

• I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Life
  • Work
  • Sleep

• You basically only discover a new thing once.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • You
  • New
  • Once

• Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Art
  • Together
  • Years

• I am keen to maintain very good relations and develop the relationship with the United States.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Relationship
  • United States

• I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Good
  • Music
  • Me

• If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Great
  • True
  • Doing

• Instead, we did take our eye off the ball. We decided, instead of finishing the job in Afghanistan, to go into Iraq. And today, unfortunately, if you look at the situation on the ground, it is a mess.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • Job
  • Today

• Despite advances achieved through objective scientific investigation, and the breaking down of long-standing fears and superstitions, the world is still not a reasonable place. Many attempts to make it so have failed because of selfish individual and national interests.

  

  Jacque Fresco
  • World
  • Long
  • Selfish

• I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Support
  • Promises
  • Medicare

• We're all equal before a wave.

  

  Laird Hamilton

• But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Long
  • American

• But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • War
  • Nature

• We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Are
  • Inconsistent

• I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.

  

  Jack Roy
  • She
  • Girl
  • French

• I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Pieces

• I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Amazing
  • London
  • Milan

• I am not against the pharmaceutical companies. I love them. That's not the issue. The issue is, in some cases, when they do these clinical trials, they control the data. They analyze the data. In some cases, they even write the article. And that leads to at least the perception, if not the reality, that there's a conflict of interest.

  

  Catherine D. DeAngelis
  • Writing
  • Reality
  • Interest

• As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

  

  Will Self
  • Paper
  • Fluid