Anthony Boucher Quotes

Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.

Anthony Boucher

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• I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Actor
  • Scripts
  • Prepare

• LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Circumstances
  • Shot
  • Off

• Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • You
  • Me

• I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Happy
  • Best
  • Moment

• For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Country
  • Responsibility

• I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Read
  • Lot
  • Nerdy

• I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

  

  Caleb Carr
  • Up
  • Me
  • Artist

• Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Up
  • Learning
  • Always

• I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Would
  • Sure
  • Babysitting

• I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• The anglophones are Quebecers, as are the French, as are the new Quebecers.

  

  Pauline Marois

• There is only One Being who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Heart
  • Jesus
  • Jesus Christ

• Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners." "And to cleaning," Michael said. "Look who's talking, Didn't the do one of those Animal Planet documentaries about the roaches in your room?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Great
  • Animal
  • Cleaning

• Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Control
  • Smile
  • Luck

• Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Work
  • Talent

• Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Happiness

• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Way
  • Best
  • Yourself

• When I was in college, I didn't like physics a lot, and I really wasn't very good at physics. And there were a lot of people around me who were really good at physics: I mean, scary good at physics. And they weren't much help to me, because I would say, 'How do you do this?' They'd say, 'Well, the answer's obvious.'

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Help
  • College
  • Physics

• Always remember, money is a servant; you are the master. Be very careful not to reverse that equation, because many people of high intelligence have already done so, to their great detriments. Unfortunately, many of these poor souls loved money and used people, which violated one of the most basic laws governing true financial success. You should always love people and use money, rather than the reverse!

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Laws

• I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.

  

  Norm Sloan
  • Player
  • Master
  • Moves

• Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.

  

  Anthony Boucher
  • Master
  • Terror
  • Sobriety