Malcolm Bradbury Quotes
'Oh, everybody exploits somebody,' says Howard, 'in this social order it's part of the human lot.'
Malcolm Bradbury
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Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
Walter Anderson
Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
Edmund Phelps
I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
Maggie Smith
I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
Daniel Craig
I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.
Laura Mvula
Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
Dan Rather
You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.
Adam Mansbach
Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.
W. Bruce Cameron
I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.
Sam Shepard
Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.
Isaac Asimov
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!
Benjamin Franklin
I don't believe in Apocalypses. I believe in Apocatastases. I think it may be the title for The Film. It's a bitch to pronounce, and no-one knows what it means, but otherwise it's a great title.
Neil Gaiman