Alan Sillitoe Quotes

Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.

Alan Sillitoe

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• I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Me
  • Always

• Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • World
  • May

• I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Characters

• Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Pretty
  • Stuck
  • Truthfully

• Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Think
  • Artists
  • Actually

• To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Win
  • Luck

• The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Age
  • Man
  • Decision

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Women
  • Sports

• I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • School
  • Brother
  • Romantic

• The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Business
  • Man
  • Yourself

• Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than some kind of classical stage structure.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Live
  • Action
  • Jazz

• For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Time
  • History
  • Technology

• La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Fearless

• ...the relatively unconscious man driven by his natural impulses because, imprisoned in his familiar world, he clings to the commonplace, the obvious, the probable, the collectively valid, using for his motto: 'Thinking is difficult. Therefore, let the herd pronounce judgement.'

  

  Carl Jung
  • World
  • Thinking

• Mentally speaking, it sucks, man. Who wants to prepare their whole life and have it all taken away by some guy who just made a bad pass? But that's the beauty of the sport as well. Anything can happen.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Guy

• We are now living in an age of literary exhaustion; we get used to the bleak landscape. Cyril Connolly said that the writer's business is to produce masterpieces; but what masterpieces have been produced in the past fifty years?

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Business
  • Age
  • Past

• I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Single

• In 2005, Republicans passed a 360-page reconciliation bill without a single Democratic vote that provided deep cuts to Medicaid and raised premiums on Medicare beneficiaries.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Single
  • Deep

• True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Time
  • Sun

• Three hundred men, each of whom knows all the other, govern the fate of the European continent, and they elect their successors from their entourage.

  

  Walther Rathenau
  • Hundred
  • Continents
  • Entourage

• Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.

  

  Alan Sillitoe
  • Life
  • Age
  • Single