Anthony Burgess Quotes

…no European whore’s mock-respectability.

Anthony Burgess

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• The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Mankind
  • Joke

• We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Mother
  • Beginning
  • Star

• Heartbreak is hard, but you find more and more things to be grateful for every day.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Day
  • Find
  • Grateful

• What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • People
  • You
  • Content

• Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Important
  • Giving

• There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Wish
  • Fire
  • Story

• People ask me, 'Is 3D a good medium for horror movies?' I think it's the perfect thing for horror movies because it really puts you into it.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • People
  • Good
  • Perfect

• My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Live
  • House
  • Small

• I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Musicians

• I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• Growing up, I was so shy, but it was weird because I was the complete opposite on stage. I was just free to be myself.

  

  Manika
  • Up
  • Free
  • Growing

• I just feel so lucky that I'm able to do things that are enriching for me.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Things
  • Feel
  • Lucky

• I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Money
  • Business
  • Myself

• I like that the pitcher hits. I think that my feeling is that everybody should play a position. In order to hit, you have to play a position. That's just my view of it. I feel that's more baseball, and the games are managed different. I enjoy the National League, how it's played.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Different
  • Think
  • Feeling

• The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Hope
  • Earth
  • Responsibility

• If you only get money, but you don't care about a thing, right or wrong, you cannot last. That cannot sustain you for the future.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Money
  • Future
  • Care

• Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • People
  • Animals
  • Dogs

• New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class.

  

  Edmund White
  • New York
  • Group
  • Immigrant

• I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Live
  • Interesting
  • Me

• Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Rule
  • Qualities
  • Authorities

• I started to write book reviews as a means of recording my thoughts about what I'd read before all memory of them vanished.

  

  Debra Hamel
  • Started
  • Recording
  • Vanished

• It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.

  

  Yasmin Zarine Shahmir
  • Prayer
  • Years
  • Sadness

• No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous - Almost, at times, the Fool.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Doubt
  • Progress

• …no European whore’s mock-respectability.

  

  Anthony Burgess