Anthony Burgess Quotes

From ancient drains and sewers of the language (maritime inns and brothels…), from scrawls in the catacombs…whoremasters’ chapbooks…the vocabulary of tavern brawls

Anthony Burgess

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• I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Man
  • Know
  • Easy

• It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Simple
  • Balance
  • Too Much

• Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Live
  • Man

• What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Think
  • Single
  • Day

• I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Famous
  • Two

• To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Day

• Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Violence
  • Another

• I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Parents
  • Strong

• I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.

  

  Farooq Abdullah
  • Better
  • Honest
  • Hide

• I just like being on stage and making people happy.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • People
  • Happy
  • Stage

• I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Good
  • Way
  • Enough

• You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Children
  • Way
  • Hard

• My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Country
  • Love

• A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Experience
  • Winter
  • Appreciation

• The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Mind
  • True

• It's time to start believing - Oh yes.Believing who you are: You are a shining star.

  

  Lionel Richie
  • Time
  • Star

• As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Work
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• It's not like he called me up and asked me. They've never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I'd regret it if I didn't do this.

  

  Jenna Bush
  • Up
  • World
  • Dad

• Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a kind of low-level panic sets in.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Book

• Once, as my New Year's Resolution, I telephoned the Extenze Male Enhancement hotline every day for a month.

  

  Alexandra Petri

• In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser's vision of constructing Aswan's High Dam as a 'national project' for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • High
  • Vision

• We are not defined by the family into which we are born, but the one we choose and create. We are not born, we become.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Family
  • Born
  • Create

• From ancient drains and sewers of the language (maritime inns and brothels…), from scrawls in the catacombs…whoremasters’ chapbooks…the vocabulary of tavern brawls

  

  Anthony Burgess