Anthony Burgess Quotes

…British louts with guitars and emetic little songs…infantile screamers…

Anthony Burgess

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• I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Think
  • Change
  • Human

• I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Me

• Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Words
  • English

• Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Good
  • Author
  • Manners

• As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Country
  • Thought
  • Language

• Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Best
  • Look
  • Dreams

• Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Culture
  • Influence
  • Media

• I don't eat white breads, and I'm off dairy due to an allergic reaction and because of what it does to the body. I've learnt a lot about different foods and how the body breaks it down and what happens when we eliminate or incorporate certain foods, and it's pretty fascinating!

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Different
  • Pretty
  • Body

• For me, emotion comes first. If I have to change a scene, invent a scene, change dialogue, or put Graff by the lake in order to feel that dynamic, and the end results feels like 'Ender's Game,' then hopefully it works.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Game
  • Change
  • End

• When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • You
  • Literature
  • Movies

• All art is a confession.

  

  Gaston Lachaise
  • Art
  • Confession

• If I could read it, I could play it.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Play
  • Read
  • If I Could

• I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • May
  • Book

• 'War does not call for judgment,' I said, 'merely survival.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • War
  • Survival

• Quoyle large, white, stumbling along going nowhere

  

  Annie Proulx

• That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

• Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • World
  • Learning

• The main source of competition in society may not be among individuals but rather among cooperating groups of peers.

  

  Alex Pentland
  • Competition
  • Source
  • Groups

• My mother, may her soul rest in peace, shaped my personality; thanks to her, I have acquired many values, good traits and skills.

  

  Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
  • Mother
  • Peace
  • Personality

• Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

  

  CeeLo Green
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Song

• I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Never
  • Accepted
  • Knighthood

• …British louts with guitars and emetic little songs…infantile screamers…

  

  Anthony Burgess