Anthony Burgess Quotes

…for thy huggest thy bolster, which men call a Dutch wife in some parts.

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• Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery

• I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Style
  • Like
  • Excellent

• Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Single
  • Brave

• You have to be yourself.

  

  Young Thug
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Be Yourself

• My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Wrong
  • Places

• We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Place

• Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Greatest
  • Gifts

• Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Know
  • Now
  • Journalism

• Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Public
  • Sides

• Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Up
  • You
  • Start

• I owe everything to France.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Everything
  • France
  • Owe

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• Hemingway was a jerk.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Jerk
  • Hemingway

• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Food
  • Favorite

• We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Make
  • Navigate
  • Maze

• The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Beautiful
  • Night
  • Opportunity

• I think a lot of women, especially ones that want to achieve career goals, tend to worry. I don't want anyone to worry their life away - time goes by so fast, and worry is really wasted time and energy.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Women

• One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Long
  • Said
  • Blow

• It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Fun
  • Two
  • Cartoon

• America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • She
  • America
  • Political

• Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Wife

• Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.

  

  Alison Lurie
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his life, and this is mine. It is not the best book I ever encountered, perhaps, but it is for me the handiest, and I keep it about me in much the same way one carries a handkerchief - for relief in moments of defluxion or despair.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life
  • Men
  • Thinking

• …for thy huggest thy bolster, which men call a Dutch wife in some parts.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Men
  • Wife