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 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

• I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • World
  • Great
  • Love

• The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

  

  Malcolm X
  • God
  • Black
  • Government

• One naturally wonders if the problem of translation could conceivably be treated as a problem in cryptography. When I look at an article in Russian, I say: 'This is really written in English, but it has been coded in some strange symbols. I will now proceed to decode.'

  

  Warren Weaver
  • English

• I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Music
  • Done
  • Business

• I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Environment
  • Quiet
  • Subtle

• Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I’m going to use the money to go to space.

  

  Donald Miller
  • God
  • Money
  • Book

• My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • Game
  • Discipline
  • Gift

• There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.

  

  Virginia Graham
  • Music
  • Knows
  • Composer

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

  

  Anthony Burgess