Anthony Burgess Quotes

'What's it going to be then, eh?'

Anthony Burgess

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• Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • World
  • American

• I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Life
  • True
  • Think

• I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Life
  • Theater
  • Plays

• Time and time again, small businesses testify before the Committee on Small Business that they simply want the government to 'get out of the way.'

  

  Sam Graves
  • Time
  • Business
  • Small

• If you look at successful studios, they're the ones with stabilized management.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Successful
  • Look
  • Management

• Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Important
  • Beauty
  • Asset

• When I was at school and wasn't having a great time or when music wasn't going very well, I would eat, eat. Eating would make me feel better; when I felt lonely, I would eat.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Language
  • Said
  • Differences

• My uncle Shawn used to stay with us when we were really young, and I used to come downstairs and see him break dancing on this piece of a cardboard. I probably always thought they were cool since then. I never knew his comedy, but I used to always see him break dancing. And he was terrible at it.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Comedy
  • Cool
  • Thought

• I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Power
  • Dark

• Isn't that sad! I'm so fragile. It's tragic laughs. Can you believe it? That's so sad.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Believe
  • Sad

• Oh! Women can never forgive me. They hate me, they can feel that I ‘m disarming them. I show them without their coquetry, in the states of animals cleaning themselves... ...I'm sure of it; they see me as the enemy. Fortunately, since if they did like me, that would be the end of me.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Women
  • Hate
  • Enemy

• A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.

  

  E. B. White
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Oh, when I was in love with youThen I was clean and brave,And miles around the wonder grewHow well did I behave.And now the fancy passes byAnd nothing will remain,And miles around they'll say that IAm quite myself again.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Wonder
  • Brave

• I wanna fuck her, but I don't want to vote for her.

  

  Margaret Cho

• An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

  

  Margaret Atwood

• The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Up
  • Children
  • Today

• If you really don’t enjoy the type of music I make and that’s not you, OK. But don’t say I’m not talented. If you haven’t noticed, I wasn’t made - I was found.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • Music

• You look for comic relief in difficult times.

  

  Colin Morgan

• It's not important how many mistakes you make; it's about how many chances you create and how many goals you score. That is my philosophy.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Important
  • Goals

• I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Littles
  • Fiction
  • Buttons

• Lying is the greatest of all sins.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Lying
  • Sin

• 'What's it going to be then, eh?'

  

  Anthony Burgess