Anthony Burgess Quotes

'…Just you bloody hypocrites with your four wives and your ten thousand houris in heaven?…'

Anthony Burgess

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• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Work
  • Being
  • Reputation

• I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Christian

• What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Positive
  • Blood
  • White

• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege

• I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Inspiration
  • Say
  • Cook

• I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mind

• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Know
  • Learn

• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Time
  • House

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Want
  • Career

• One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Real
  • Need
  • Face

• I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Sleep
  • Bed

• I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Night
  • Black

• My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • Military
  • Background
  • My Own

• I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Know
  • Wine
  • Library

• Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• Unless you look like Brad Pitt, it's really hard to have full control of your character.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • Control
  • Look

• The rules of drama are very much separate from the properties of life. I think that's especially true of Shakespeare.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Life
  • True
  • Think

• I love action-adventure-type films - mythical adventures like 'Lord of the Rings' or superhero films like 'Batman.'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Love
  • Action
  • Like

• 'I don't... I don't care,' he said softly to his reflection. 'I have a job to do. It doesn't matter what I have become. It doesn't matter what I look like.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Job
  • Reflection

• While the women just want to have consequence-free sex anti-contraceptive argument is often trotted out by latter-day social conservatives, such a view is a cruel and misogynist oversimplification. A more realistic assessment of the struggle for effective contraception would be to see it as the struggle to achieve some level of control over the single most dangerous, resource-intensive, and biologically crucial activity in which human beings regularly engage.

  

  Hanne Blank
  • Women
  • Consequence-free sex
  • Anti-contraceptive argument

• For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work. So much persistence. And so much patience. But every process has an end and an appointed term. Your healing will come... And like all created things, your worldly pain will die.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Work
  • Die
  • Pain

• Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire of gaining heaven, may He keep me out. But should I worship Him from love alone, He reveals Himself to me, that my whole heart may be filled with His love and presence.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • Heart
  • May
  • Fear

• I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Control
  • Months
  • Hackers

• '…Just you bloody hypocrites with your four wives and your ten thousand houris in heaven?…'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Heaven