Carl Honore Quotes
We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
Quotes to Explore
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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You have not quite lived in this ridiculously silly celebrity culture until you've been told one day how loved you are and the next day how hated you are - and sometimes by the same individual.
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I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns. It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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The early American arrived at a land of which he knew nothing.
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We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
