Alan Coren Quotes

Disneyworld…is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

Alan Coren

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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Model

• Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Taken
  • Serious
  • Human

• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Start

• Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Bad
  • Achieve
  • Tough

• For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Look
  • Appearance

• I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Man
  • Girl
  • Door

• I'm not looking ahead joyfully to the rest of my life or the future of the human race. I've always written about man as an animal species among other animals, competing for limited resources. Our population is exploding. Our environment is dying. Science has debunked God.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • God
  • Future

• A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Down
  • Build
  • Carpenter

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• I don't mind dating younger men now.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Dating

• I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Time
  • Career
  • Past

• Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Government
  • Responsible
  • Americans

• I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it's to the world. I don't have a problem doing that.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • World

• In Isaiah’s description of the downfall of Babylon, the city so famed for its astrologers, we find mention of Hobhre Shamayim,[344] that is, dividers of the heavens, astrologers who divide the heavens into houses for the convenience of their prognostications. The same persons are then described as Chozim bakkokhabhim, star-gazers, those who study the stars for the purpose of taking horoscopes.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Description
  • Downfall
  • Babylon

• I'm very pleased to announce that agreement has now been reached that negotiations on Turkey's accession into the European Union can and will begin in the very near future.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Future
  • Agreement
  • European Union

• True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • World
  • God
  • Children

• I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

  

  Chiranjeevi
  • Work
  • Political

• Disneyworld…is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

  

  Alan Coren
  • Future
  • Vision
  • Magic