Anthony Burgess Quotes

I lay a little while, naked, mottled, sallow, emaciated, smoking a cigarette that should have been postcoital but was not.

Anthony Burgess

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• I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Proud
  • Brand
  • British

• You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Control
  • King

• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Never
  • Boat
  • Dare

• Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.

  

  Lake Bell
  • School
  • Beautiful
  • Marriage

• You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Great
  • Business
  • Moving

• We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Work
  • Me
  • Magic

• The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Event
  • Attempt

• The world is a penal institution.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • World
  • Institution

• We are sufficiently at the mercy of machines, Roger; if our music must necessarily be mechanical, then it is time for us to throw in the sponge, and abandon all hope for the future of humanity.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Time
  • Music
  • Hope

• 'You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.' 'What then is a Master for?' 'To make you see the uselessness of having one.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Eyes

• It's rare that you get to play a great role that has an arc.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Great

• When people say that the Internet is going to make us all geniuses, that was said about the telegraph. On the other hand, when they say the Internet is going to make us stupid, that also was said about the telegraph.

  

  James Gleick
  • People
  • Hand
  • Stupid

• I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'

  

  Jason Reitman
  • Life
  • Career
  • Son

• American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Live
  • American

• Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.

  

  Jacques Pepin
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Lawyer

• The input of Idle No More has been a lightning rod for people who were already thinking this way. We are reaching clarities on bigger issues like fracking and GMOs and climate change.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • People
  • Thinking

• If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Wind

• It's odd seeing yourself on screen at all.

  

  Alexandra Daddario

• Back then it was a very realistic thing for me. My own thing was, you know, wake up at 5 in the afternoon, it's dark out, hang out, maybe take a shower, then start drinking, start smoking pot, go out with friends, get wasted.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Dark

• I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • People
  • Life
  • Hate

• The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.

  

  Beth Orton
  • Light
  • Couple
  • Smoking

• I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation.

  

  Elie Ducommun
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Earth

• I lay a little while, naked, mottled, sallow, emaciated, smoking a cigarette that should have been postcoital but was not.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Smoking