Anthony Burgess Quotes

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Anthony Burgess

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• I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Business
  • City
  • Universe

• This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Person

• For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Music
  • Important
  • Marriage

• My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Change

• Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Old
  • Innocent
  • Grow

• One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Words
  • Funny

• The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Art
  • Play
  • Interpretation

• How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

  

  Ferdowsi
  • Man
  • Destiny
  • Escape

• I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Important
  • Think
  • Energy

• It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Country
  • City
  • Cool

• What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Funny
  • Genius
  • Realize

• I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Money
  • Always
  • Film

• As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • World
  • Man
  • Wish

• Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Chance
  • Yourself

• Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Help
  • House
  • Friend

• It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Destiny

• You never know what a man-or a woman-has inside: how much grit, how much courage, how much willingness to change. When someone draws on those qualities, you're looking at a person of substance. And power. And promise. This world needs more of those.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • World
  • Power
  • Courage

• If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Up
  • World
  • House

• Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Attention
  • Connection
  • Breathe

• Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Imagination
  • Persons
  • Ordinary

• True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

  

  Epes Sargent
  • Poetry
  • Emotional
  • Harmony

• Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Life
  • Time
  • Country

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  Anthony Burgess