Anthony Burgess Quotes

‘it excites the pancreas to fresh efforts’

Anthony Burgess

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• Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Success
  • Ideas
  • Green

• I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God and Man at Yale.'

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • God
  • Man
  • Fall

• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Popular
  • Word
  • Dirty

• In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
  • Time
  • Period

• Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Small
  • Wisdom
  • Thoughts

• I'm a good legislator. I'm a bad some other things.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Things

• I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Home
  • Sing
  • Shower

• We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Only
  • We Cannot

• Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Fan
  • Dramas
  • Courtroom

• We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

  

  Earl Warren
  • May
  • Know
  • Story

• It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Work
  • Great
  • Men

• I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.

  

  Sam Riley
  • People
  • School
  • Acting

• I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Up
  • Me
  • Blessed

• For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Man
  • Day

• I remember sitting one time doing 100 interviews in a day, and they're all television interviews and they're kind of - and you just sit there and they bring these people in and out, and in out.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Remember

• I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Time
  • Past
  • Struggle

• Reaganomics: You start a business in your parents' garage. Obamanomics: You move into your parents' garage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Business
  • Parents

• Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Great

• Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently.

  

  James Marsden
  • Time
  • Movie

• As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Why
  • Age

• I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

  

  Bill Keller
  • Time
  • Truth

• What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Government
  • Guilty
  • Crimes

• We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go on, from week to week, year to year, with things which have no foundation whatever in its pages- yea, with things utterly opposed to its teaching; and, all the while, we boast of having the Scriptures, just like the Jews of old, who made their boast of having the oracles of God, while those very oracles condemned themselves and their ways, and left them without a single plea.

  

  Charles Henry Mackintosh
  • Christian
  • Week
  • Teaching

• ‘it excites the pancreas to fresh efforts’

  

  Anthony Burgess