Alan Sillitoe Quotes

It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.

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• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Future
  • Funny

• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Worship

• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Eat
  • Either

• By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Opportunity
  • Young
  • New

• The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

  

  Edmond About
  • Men
  • Country
  • Question

• When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Dignity
  • Begins
  • Boasting

• I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Lifetime
  • Foot
  • Tibet

• Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Like
  • Athlete
  • Just

• You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Years
  • Difference
  • Holocaust

• I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Boat
  • Take
  • Champagne

• All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Fear
  • Friend
  • Imagination

• Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Support
  • Trump
  • Will

• It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Quality

• Businesses succeed when societies themselves succeed. When countries are affected by violence and the absence of the rule of law, business can and must be a messenger of peace.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Business
  • Law
  • Peace

• Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Great
  • Men
  • Women

• Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Life
  • Man
  • Floor

• I do not think we are deceived to grow, But that the crudest fancy, slightest show, Covers some separate truth that we may know.In the one Truth, each separate fact is true; Eternally in one I many view, And destinies through destiny pursue.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • May
  • Truth
  • True

• When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • World
  • End

• The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Ruined
  • Wickedness

• You can get people to work by using threats or by promising rewards.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • People
  • Work

• Letting a project sit and coming back to it is just as important as working on it all the time. You need to come back to it with fresh eyes.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Time
  • Important
  • Eyes

• It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.

  

  Alan Sillitoe
  • World
  • Soul
  • Runner