Carl Honore Quotes
My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.Carl Honore
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
Vin Scully -
I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
Tea Obreht -
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono -
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens -
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
Queen Elizabeth II
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos -
So, it's like: I'm an OK singer; I'm an OK guitar player and you put them together and... it's just OK.
Callie Thorne -
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Barbara Walters -
Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
Ed Smith -
What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
Verne Troyer -
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
Oliver Stone
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I'm not the girl next door.
Carine Roitfeld -
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang -
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
Salman Rushdie -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp -
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
Wendell Johnson -
I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
Rand Paul
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If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.
America Ferrera -
I've had quite a wide spread of a career. But it's not like I've had to negotiate what Sienna Miller has had to negotiate, or even Felicity Jones, for example.
Genevieve O'Reilly -
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Victor Hugo -
We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.
Philip K. Dick -
My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
Carl Honore