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.Carl Honore
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.
Samantha Power -
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.
D. J. MacHale -
I really don't believe in magic.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Irving Penn -
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!
Hansika Motwani -
Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl Marx
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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.
Fay Weldon -
I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
Yasmine Al Masri -
I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
Hailey Gates -
I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
Indra Nooyi -
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.
Rachel Gibson -
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
Nazanin Boniadi -
I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
Viggo Mortensen -
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.
Karen Kingsbury -
You lose the speed before the stamina.
Haile Gebrselassie -
Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
Ignatius of Antioch -
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
J. B. Priestley
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Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of superiority, the caste system in India and the people thinking that western things are better.
Anita Desai -
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
Maurice Blanchot -
I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.
Patton Oswalt -
I'm only going to get better and better. Not going to get worse.
Jason Pierre-Paul -
I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.
Jan Karon -
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.
Carl Honore