Edward St Aubyn Quotes
Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?
Quotes to Explore
-
I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
-
To be is to do.
-
When all are wrong, everyone is right.
-
In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
-
What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
-
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
-
There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
-
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
-
Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
-
I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
-
Life started getting good when I started making money.
-
I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
-
I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
-
The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
-
It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
-
I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
-
But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
-
We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
-
I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
-
We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.
-
Will I be coming to you as husband or a child? A partner or a student?
-
After all we have each of us only eight notes to work upon.
-
I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.
-
Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?
