Conn Iggulden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
-
My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
-
I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
-
The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society.
-
People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
-
With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
-
In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
-
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
-
Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
-
Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
-
I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
-
My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be there, and you can get some of the same great competition in college that you do in the low minor leagues.
-
However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
-
Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
-
Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
-
Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
-
I've laid my friends bare.
-
If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
-
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
-
I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human being. I think being in the public eye and growing up, it's made me quite selfish in some respects. I can be extremely generous with friends, but in relationships I can be quite mean in terms of my time and my affections. I take people for granted, and I'm trying not to do that.
-
Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.
-
I encourage myself - and everyone - to focus on how you feel and take care of yourself as opposed to your waistline.
-
A man should always care about pleasing his wife.
