Anthony Burgess Quotes

'Salam aleikum.'

Anthony Burgess

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• I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Me
  • Action
  • Movies

• My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Actions
  • Democratic
  • Tastes

• Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Again
  • Once
  • Arrogance

• Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Money
  • Change
  • Door

• The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Up
  • World
  • Sleep

• I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Think
  • Church
  • Television

• It is better to be likable than to be talented.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Better
  • Talented
  • Likable

• We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Know

• With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Song
  • Tried
  • Traditional

• Business is all about the customer: what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and is delivered with amazing customer service.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Money
  • Business
  • Amazing

• Years of love have been forgotIn the hatred of a minute.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

• Sorrow for the lost Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore - Nameless here for evermore.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Lost

• Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • She

• Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Believe
  • Eyes
  • Magic

• It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Men
  • Beginning
  • Thoughts

• It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood, and this is a thing that even God-who knows all that can be known-seems powerless to change.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • God
  • Believe
  • History

• I fear the vermin that shall undermine Senate and citadel and school and shrine.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • School
  • Fear

• Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

  

  Aristotle
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Animals

• The way I see it, my job as a manager is to create a fertile environment, keep it healthy, and watch for the things that undermine it. I believe, to my core, that everybody has the potential to be creative—whatever form that creativity takes—and that to encourage such development is a noble thing.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Job
  • Environment
  • Creative

• I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • You
  • Purpose
  • Hustler

• That applies, by the way, even to some of the folks who are now [Donald] Trump supporters. They're responding to a fictional character named Barack Obama who they see on Fox News or who they hear about through Rush Limbaugh.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Character
  • Way
  • Trump

• Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star

• I just want to see a good movie. Fortunately, good movies come in all sorts of genres.

  

  Colin Cunningham
  • Good
  • Movie

• 'Salam aleikum.'

  

  Anthony Burgess