Anthony Burgess Quotes

Ted, I noted, was very busy - at the pumps, at the glasses behind, the bottles below, the merrily ringing till, like a percussion-player in some modern work who dashes with confidence from xylophone to glockenspiel to triangle to wind-machine to big drum to tambourine.

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• Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hate
  • Him
  • Communist

• I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Done
  • Medical
  • Surgery

• I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.

  

  Iman
  • Women
  • Black
  • Beauty

• A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Good
  • End
  • Street

• I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Love
  • Science
  • Reading

• It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Job
  • Popular
  • Results

• Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • May
  • Purpose

• He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Heaven

• Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Different
  • City
  • Road

• Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • American
  • Leadership
  • Move

• I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Rock
  • Wrestling
  • Favorite

• We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Mean
  • Nose
  • Solar

• I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Darkness

• Half the time, people will be abusing me on Twitter, and half the time, somebody will be praising me. So either it will go to my head, or I will take it to my heart. So better I stay away from it.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Soul
  • Think
  • Funny

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Men
  • Weird
  • Baseball

• My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.

  

  Louis Navellier
  • Long
  • Money
  • Confidence

• I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• Material comes all kinds of ways, and it's never a question of a lack of material or a lack of projects - I have tons of projects. The issue is to convince someone to give you the money. And it's a very different business than it was just 8 years ago.

  

  John Landis
  • Different
  • Money
  • Business

• I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Catholic
  • Atheist

• I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Want
  • Politician

• Ted, I noted, was very busy - at the pumps, at the glasses behind, the bottles below, the merrily ringing till, like a percussion-player in some modern work who dashes with confidence from xylophone to glockenspiel to triangle to wind-machine to big drum to tambourine.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Work
  • Player
  • Confidence