William Dalrymple Quotes

For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.

William Dalrymple

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• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Game

• I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Fun
  • Try
  • Have Fun

• The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Nature
  • Rest
  • Wealth

• I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Blame

• I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • God
  • Weird
  • Thank God

• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Equality

• From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Growing
  • Acceptance
  • Discomfort

• The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Police
  • Stuff
  • Academy

• I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Work
  • Very
  • Worth

• Whether you watch 'Law and Order' all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Time
  • Law
  • Police

• Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Women
  • Failure
  • Greatness

• The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Battle
  • Fought
  • Grandest

• All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Water
  • Air

• 'As with all dwellings,' she said, 'of mortals and immortals both, it is the living that makes a house-not the doors, not the walls.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • She
  • House

• One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Parents
  • Vision

• If I write the song, I get to name it.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Song

• The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Passion
  • Explore

• I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • People
  • Freedom

• Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Up
  • Dance

• During the writing process, I tend not to listen to too much music. I obviously wear a lot of influences on my sleeve, but if I was listening to too many records, I would turn into too much of a monkey.

  

  James Lee Lindsey Jr.
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listening

• While I've had plenty of ups and downs, dealt with my share of failure, and struggled through emotionally difficult periods, I'm fundamentally an optimist.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Failure

• The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth in a small group at the top, a not very big middle-class in the middle, and an enormous percentage of the population in the bottom part of the pyramid.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • Society
  • Small
  • Model

• For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.

  

  William Dalrymple
  • Writing
  • Travel
  • Hands