Anthony Powell Quotes

There is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

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• My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.

  

  Zach Anner
  • True
  • Best
  • Rest

• I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
  • Look
  • Forward

• Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Investment

• The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Modern
  • System
  • Absurdity

• I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Time
  • World
  • Pretty

• Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.

  

  M.I.A.
  • People
  • Political
  • Girl

• The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Change
  • Paradox

• I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Twitter

• I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • God
  • Humor

• There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Rubbish
  • Israeli

• Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Sports
  • Essence
  • Through

• Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Real
  • Movie

• My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Never

• It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't writing.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Remember

• When I was 14, I entered British Vogue's annual talent contest and got a special mention. I went up to London to meet the editors and wrote about it in my high school magazine.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• Despite what you hear about the publishing industry being a fixed game that you can only get in if you know somebody, I'm here in person to tell you it ain't so. If your stuff is really any good, sooner or later some editor will take a chance on you.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Good
  • Game
  • Chance

• I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Science

• All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Changing

• I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row on my cable provider's dial. I can flip from Fox to CNN to HLN to MSNBC, and I find myself at night flipping it back and forth through them, and it's something of an addiction.

  

  Chris Carter
  • Night
  • Political
  • Addiction

• We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

  

  Nicolas Winding Refn
  • Culture
  • Beauty
  • Fabulous

• I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Men
  • Thinking

• ...I think there's only one thing that anybody teaches, and this is character. And I think that whether you are teaching history, math, or biology, or music, what you are really doing is, you are helping to shape the character of that person who is your student... Music is such a wonderful teaching tool, because while you are developing musical skills, that student can learn a lot about discipline and cooperation.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Discipline

• I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Doing

• There is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

  

  Anthony Powell