William Boyd Quotes

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.

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• I like to do the splits onstage.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Like
  • Onstage
  • Splits

• I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Education
  • Best

• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Alone
  • Trust

• I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Family
  • College

• Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.

  

  Raf Simons
  • History
  • Culture
  • Question

• Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Going
  • Alien
  • Hospital

• I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Book
  • Write
  • Fans

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Reason
  • Animal

• Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • History
  • Name
  • Evidence

• When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Father

• The reform process began with the historic consensus on the Charter of National Action, in which the Bahraini people decided on a new chapter of their history.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • History
  • Action

• It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

  

  Karl Popper
  • You
  • Speak
  • Impossible

• But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Up
  • Character
  • End

• We have met the enemy and he is us.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Enemy
  • U.S.
  • Met

• In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Great
  • Perception

• After a traumatic event, people tend to store a series of memories and arrange them into a meaningful narrative. They remember exactly where they were and to whom they were talking.

  

  David Grann
  • People
  • Remember
  • Memories

• If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all to think that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests me. Actually, the deconstruction of that power is what interests me.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Interests

• The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Men
  • May
  • Problem

• If there are people out by the bus, I'll come off the bus and sign autographs, too. I always want to be accessible. I always tell my fans, 'If I ever get on the bus and don't come off, it's because I'm under the weather or I'm really tired.'

  

  Luke Bryan
  • People
  • Tired

• As chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I am confronted every day with the security concerns and threats to our own nation's safety, as well as threats to the rest of the world.

  

  John McCain
  • World
  • Rest
  • Safety

• My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.

  

  William Boyd
  • People
  • Novel