Conn Iggulden Quotes

You won't calm the tiger if you feed him with your own flesh

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• You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Real
  • May
  • Me

• I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Life
  • Think
  • Successful

• I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Screenwriting
  • Itch

• 'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Life
  • History

• I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Job
  • Game
  • Taken

• Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Clothes
  • Carry

• Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Logic

• What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Live
  • Like
  • Jazz

• I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

  

  Ieva Laguna
  • Work
  • Business
  • Myself

• When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's like he's got his own genre.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Guy
  • Style
  • Talking

• Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Art
  • Sad
  • Popular

• I notice me. I notice you too. And there are simple things that we don't even try anymore. There's a way out of this. Beat the time. And every time I turn around we got some clever way to put each other down.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Clever

• The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Environment
  • Management
  • Marketing

• Kernik had stumbled on an immutable truth, a truth older than the world. Priests claimed the gods made men, but this was not so. Men made the gods. Firstly, by forming them in clay, by chipping them from stone. Secondly, and more importantly, by believing in them, believing in them utterly.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Men
  • Truth

• Two headlights shine through the sleepless nightand I will get you, get you aloneYour name has echoed through my mindAnd I just think you should, think you should knowThat nothing safe is worth the driveAnd I will follow you follow you homeI'll follow you follow you home

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Home
  • Shine

• Belinda was as brave as a barrel full of bears,And Ink and Blink chased lions down the stairs,Mustard was as brave as a tiger in a rage,But Custard cried for a nice safe cage.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Nice
  • Brave
  • Tiger

• [E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Hand
  • Enemy
  • Hands

• Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Earth
  • Water

• And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.

  

  Apsley Cherry-Garrard
  • Death
  • Sleep
  • Snow

• It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Style
  • Partner

• You won't calm the tiger if you feed him with your own flesh

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Calm
  • Tiger
  • Flesh