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
  • Star
  • Beginning

• 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

• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Rocks

• 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

• This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Want
  • Man
  • Me

• 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

• When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me.

  

  Immanuel Velikovsky
  • Father
  • Faith
  • Child

• Does anyone ever know even the outer fringe of another? What are you like in there? Mary - do you hear? Who are you in there?

  

  John Steinbeck

• People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.

  

  Wilhelm Stekel
  • Understand
  • Rather
  • Spoken

• Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.

  

  Elizabeth Carter
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Suffering

• …no European whore’s mock-respectability.

  

  Anthony Burgess