Alex Turner Quotes

I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam.

Alex Turner

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• If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Bored
  • Awards

• I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• Body experience... is the centre of creation.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Experience
  • Body
  • Creation

• I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Child

• It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Growing
  • Me
  • Water

• I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Want
  • Shoes
  • Champagne

• Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Home
  • Me

• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Christian
  • Principles
  • Tell

• Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Makes
  • Cross
  • Carelessness

• The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

  

  Ovid
  • Fortune
  • Prayers
  • Cowards

• For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Political
  • Education
  • Health

• The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • People
  • May
  • Career

• The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Intellectual

• You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Change

• I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Future
  • Control

• When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Drama

• When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Song
  • Beautiful

• Whoever says that sanctions will only deteriorate the situations of blacks in South Africa does not know the criminal, murderous character of genocide that represents the system of apartheid.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Character
  • Know
  • System

• If something was to happen to part of my family, I don't know what I'd do.

  

  Aisha Hinds
  • Family

• Our German language has a word which in a magnificent way denotes conduct based on this spirit: doing one's duty [Pflichterfüllung]-which means serving the community instead of contenting oneself. We have a word for the basic disposition which underlies conduct of this kind in contrast to egoism and selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' we mean only the ability of the individual to sacrifice himself for the whole, for his fellow men.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Community
  • Language
  • Egoism

• I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Democracy

• The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

  

  Brad Holland
  • People
  • America

• I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam.

  

  Alex Turner
  • Good
  • Imagination