Anthony Burgess Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Robots are good at things that are structured.
-
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'.
-
My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
-
I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
-
Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
-
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
-
The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to 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.'
-
It is better to be likable than to be talented.
-
We all know we have a prescribed amount of time on Earth. We just don't know how much.
-
With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.
-
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.
-
Years of love have been forgotIn the hatred of a minute.
-
Sorrow for the lost Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore - Nameless here for evermore.
-
Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
-
Sexual freedom, sexual liberation. A modern delusion. We are hierarchical animals. Sweep one hierarchy away, and another will take its place, perhaps less palatable than the first.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.
-
After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It's one thing to say that we have to run everything, it's another to say we don't want anything to do with it.
-
Self-interest usually brings injustice with it.
-
The only women who don't believe that sexual harassment is a real problem in this country are women who have never been in the workplace.
-
'Salam aleikum.'
