Anthony Burgess Quotes

‘...You know what they call you expatriates? White leeches.’

Anthony Burgess

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• You mustn't upstage the bride.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • You
  • Bride

• I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n' roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n' roll.

  

  Gary Glitter
  • Thinking
  • Rock
  • Finish

• With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Great
  • Brain
  • Connection

• Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • People
  • Just
  • Everyone

• I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Driving
  • Saying
  • Ice

• Along with our friends in the GCC, the first order of business is stability. Beyond the imperative of stability, the most important priority is job creation for all Bahrainis.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Important
  • Business
  • Job

• All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • May
  • Hope
  • Questions

• The biggest misconception in the hip-hop industry is that people are only focused on the money. We should just be happy for everybody that is working in the hip-hop culture.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Money
  • Happy

• I came to Mumbai in 2000 to do a hotel management course. Following this, I worked as a marketing executive with Hotel Sheraton in Muscat for a year. It was in 2004 that I participated in the Gladrags Mr. India contest and bagged the most popular model award. After that, I did few ramp shows and ads.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Model
  • Popular
  • Management

• A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Me
  • Director
  • Him

• Robert Fisk is my hero. In America, they think he's a terrorist.

  

  Ian McShane
  • America
  • Think
  • Hero

• I went to department stores, and there was nothing that I really loved. All the shoes were too complicated, too crazy, too ridiculous, too extreme. The platforms were so high; the shoes were so ugly, covered in crystals and feathers and crap. I just thought, 'Maybe somebody wants a beautifully simple, sexy shoe that they can actually walk in.'

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • High
  • Simple
  • Crazy

• I find that I don't lie about the big things in life. The things that matter. And about me. While I'm talking about myself, I rarely lie: I know who I am, my level of talent, that I'm not the most versatile filmmaker, the person I am. I don't lie about myself because I don't lie to myself.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Lie

• There is nothing settled about a poet's identity. The becoming doesn't stop because the being has been achieved. They proceed together, attached in ways that are hard to be exact about.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Together
  • Stop
  • Identity

• Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Control
  • City
  • Crime

• My next baby will be my new record.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Baby
  • New
  • Will

• September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Feels
  • Speak
  • Names

• My god-father, Bob Wall, was in a couple of Bruce Lee movies, and he trained Bruce Lee when he came to America.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • God
  • America
  • Father

• Because of the relationship between programmed cell death and human disease, the identification of the genes and proteins that function in the process of programmed cell death has provided new targets for possible intervention in a broad diversity of disorders.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Death
  • Relationship
  • Process

• I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Player
  • Brother
  • Professional

• ‘...You know what they call you expatriates? White leeches.’

  

  Anthony Burgess