Anthony Burgess Quotes

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• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Try

• We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • School
  • Kid

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• I've done hundreds of interviews on guns. I'm against people who use guns. I don't like guns, but I've never yelled at anyone.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Done
  • Guns

• Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Father
  • Intuition
  • Follow

• My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Father
  • Government
  • Courage

• Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometimes to reflect it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • World
  • Want
  • Doing

• It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Career
  • Build

• I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Great
  • Family

• The first deaths will barely swell the daily count, and no one in the statistics bureau will notice that extra zero. But after a while everyone will begin to look at each other and ask: what's happening? Because for months doors and windows are going to rattle, furniture and trees will creak.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Daily

• No time to see, in broad daylight,Streams full of stars, like skies at night.No time to turn at Beauty's glance,And watch her feet, how they can dance.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Time
  • Night
  • Dance

• Sometimes I wore a fringe so deep it obscured the way ahead. This hardly mattered. There were always others to look where I was going.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Deep

• The value of my cry great will be its advantage to degrees. The chief of men, shield of warriors. The extensive booty of the ashen shaft is my fair Awen. A shield before a prince, bright his smile, Heroic, aspiring, the most heroic is Urien

  

  Taliesin
  • Great
  • Men
  • Value

• I realized that for this moment, nothing in the past mattered. Nothing terrible in the future mattered. What mattered was her skin against me, her hand holding me, the perfume of her hair and skin and the warmth of her breath against my chest. This was satori. This was truth.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Truth
  • Future
  • Past

• The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Air

• Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.

  

  Quintilian

• I think as individuals, people overrate the virtues of local food. Most of the energy consumption in our food system is not caused by transportation. Sometimes local food is more energy efficient. But often it's not. The strongest case for locavorism is to eat less that's flown on planes, and not to worry about boats.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • People
  • Energy
  • Food

• I have never hidden my marital status.

  

  Barun Sobti

• I can't imagine anyone ever again being able to make a film like, say, Summer Holiday, for instance, to give a British example, actually. And there will never be another Annette Funicello. I suppose it's the slight starchiness of the innocence that makes it unrepeatable.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Giving
  • Summer
  • Holiday

• Fracking is an industrial process, but it can be done safely. It's government's job to make sure it can be done safely.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • Done
  • Job

• You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.

  

  Joe Moore
  • Running
  • Trust
  • Promise

• I was only the returned Oriental eccentric, drunk at that…

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Drunk