Bernard Beckett Quotes

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

Bernard Beckett

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• God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • God
  • Experience
  • Energy

• When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Forgotten

• I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Music
  • Story
  • Strange

• I enjoy Saturday night racing.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Night
  • Enjoy
  • Saturday

• Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Criticism
  • Sympathy
  • Universities

• National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Always
  • King
  • Fight

• I'm kind of an antsy person.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Antsy

• Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

  

  Kate Fox
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally defensible, but is informed by our best view of what the law is after consideration of all the facts.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Law
  • Responsibility
  • Best

• I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Live
  • Black
  • Social Media

• Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Talk
  • React

• Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Big
  • Songwriting
  • Isolation

• If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.

  

  Randy Lerner
  • People
  • Way
  • Performance

• Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Never
  • Someone

• Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Stop
  • Back
  • Go

• Oh I detest him. I did then, I do now, and it's mutual. He hates me as well. And I'd much prefer to have his savage hatred than even the merest hint of friendship from that man.

  

  Neil Kinnock
  • Friendship
  • Savage

• I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Write
  • Record
  • Trash

• I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies of their bodies – and those bodies were so dear to me!

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Love
  • Will
  • Despair

• I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • American
  • America

• The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased.

  

  Charles Perrault
  • Pretty
  • Son
  • King

• Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

  

  Bernard Beckett