Auberon Waugh Quotes
Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.
Quotes to Explore
-
I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
-
I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
-
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
-
I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
-
It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
-
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
-
I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
-
If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
-
You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
-
My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
-
I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
-
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
-
I love bayou life.
-
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
-
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
-
No man may make another free.
-
I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
-
I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
-
I believe that the truest parts of people can be buried, and for many different reasons.
-
I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.
-
The bigger you are, the harder they come down on you.
-
As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.
-
I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.' You just kinda, like, stuff it away until - well, some people stuff it away forever.
-
Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.
