Angus Wilson Quotes

Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

Angus Wilson

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• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Control
  • Eyes

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Great
  • Tennis

• Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • People
  • May
  • Easy

• I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Age
  • Loved
  • Animals

• My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Great
  • Mother

• In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Words
  • Star
  • Never

• I remember clearly, when I was about 4, my Aunt Linda said, 'I'm not babysitting him no more. He's bad.' It was one of the first conscious shifts I remember making. I decided, 'I'm going to be good now.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Write
  • Writer
  • Fiction

• I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Real
  • Want
  • Play

• I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Born
  • New
  • Roots

• I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Always
  • Confident
  • Maybe

• Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Happy

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Win
  • Guilty
  • Will

• My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• Switching from one career to another can be scary, but it also can be a thrilling experience. Look at it as an opportunity to really go after what you want to accomplish in life and make a difference in the world. The key is to take small, conscious steps and prepare yourself for a successful transition.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Life
  • World
  • Experience

• Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends!

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Friends
  • Political
  • DJ

• Why is it every time there is a tragedy in the U.S., President Obama blames the gun rather than the criminal?

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • Time
  • Why
  • Gun

• Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Law
  • Government

• We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

  

  Yann Martel
  • God
  • Born
  • Catholic

• The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

  

  Ben Okri
  • Suffering

• I'm overwhelmed by and in awe of the work that I do. I adore my work. I live to work.

  

  Mawra Hocane
  • Work
  • Live

• Once a Catholic always a Catholic.

  

  Angus Wilson
  • Catholic