Will Self Quotes
I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
-
Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
-
Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
-
There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught.
-
Oh, you ask me, what is the greatest torture of a person who does portraits for a living? I could fill several volumes with nice nasty stories. I don't know.
-
'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.
-
My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
-
Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.
-
It’s the light, she thought. Everyone looks like a cutthroat by torchlight. No wonder they invented electricity.
-
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause - and of obstinacy in a bad one.
-
I'm not a parent yet, but I feel like a kid needs to be loved.
-
Everyone's favorite breakfast dish can be prepared in a moment's time with just a few ingredients and minimum effort.
-
The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much.
-
I remember lying in bed one night when I was 15 and deciding I was ready to go into acting properly. I'd put it off until then because I didn't feel I was ready to handle the rejections.
-
I don't work with a trainer. I just go to cheerleading practice and run a couple times a week.
-
Fashion moves so quickly that, unless you have a strong point of view, you can lose integrity.
-
In high school, I felt pressure to fit in with groups and with people who didn't actually want to be my friend. That's something I learned moving forward into adulthood: to keep the people around me people who love me for exactly who I am.
-
If women dabble in rap but they're not rappers, to get from dabbling to doing it is really difficult, confidence-wise.
-
We are so consumed by our phones including me and i understand its needed in today’s competition the peer pressure to manage work, social life. But we are losing out on the human touch.
-
In a city that worships the new and the sleek, the street market at Da Jing Road is willfully out of step. It is a splendid jumble of centuries, full of sizzling pot stickers and bleating cell phones, pungent rice wine and bullfrogs as plump as softballs.
-
It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.
-
In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.
-
I'd rather fiddle with my phone for precious seconds than neglect an apostrophe; I'd rather insert a word laboriously keyed out than resort to predictive texting for a - acceptable to some - synonym.
