Anthony Storr Quotes

It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

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• No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Matter
  • Street

• At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

  

  Karl Rove
  • World
  • Different
  • Two

• Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Never
  • Through
  • Nurse

• I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

  

  Edmund White
  • Thought
  • Special
  • Mission

• A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Way
  • You
  • Eye

• We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Care
  • Enough
  • Lies

• I've never been on a television show as a regular before.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Never
  • Television
  • Before

• Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Up
  • Want
  • Growing

• I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Fly
  • Lucky

• I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Work
  • Know
  • End

• We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Long
  • Country
  • Think

• Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Up
  • Great
  • Love

• This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.

  

  Gabriel Lippmann
  • Result
  • Sensitive
  • Within

• I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Me
  • California
  • Cat

• I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Job
  • Black

• I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Identity
  • Sorry
  • Generation

• Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Thinking
  • Power
  • Future

• 17. The Jnanin present in the heart sees the mind merged in the light of the heart, like moonlight in the presence of the sun during the day.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Light

• Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if you ever lose the will to control, the will to destroy, then it must be because you choose to lose it. My role was not to force you to be gentle and kind; it was to keep you alive while you decided for yourselves what kind of people you wanted to be.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Control

• I should have kissed more than your hand...thought I'd have more time," he whispered between liquid, panting breaths. "...too late now." I looked into his eyes and completely forgot the rest of the world. In that moment, all I knew was that I was holding Stark in my arms, and I was going to lose him very, very soon.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Time
  • World
  • Eyes

• Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

• I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Bad
  • Exercise
  • Theory

• It's not psychopathology that counts. It's what you do with it.

  

  Anthony Storr