V. S. Pritchett Quotes

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

V. S. Pritchett

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• Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Batteries

• In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • World
  • Work
  • Past

• Friends are not made, but recognized.

  

  Carl Rakosi
  • Friends
  • Made
  • Recognized

• When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Job

• In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Up
  • Tired

• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Up
  • House
  • Player

• Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Work
  • Live
  • Wish

• I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Never
  • Down
  • Phone

• I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• I used to feel guilty about owning a console.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Feel
  • Guilty
  • Owning

• I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Never
  • Doing
  • Kid

• I've done some good work and some not-good work.

  

  Sally Field
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Live
  • Society
  • Turning

• Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Blood
  • Diseases
  • Bone

• A week after you read this chapter, misandry will become apparent in commercials, in films, in everyday conversations. But the bias that is hardest to see is the bias we share.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Everyday

• Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes

• I must before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet – a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and fearful passionless force of non-human things...

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Die

• Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they’ll find a means to be happy.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Happy

• All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • World
  • Bad
  • First

• We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Mysterious

• I'm spoilt. I like my own space. I don't even own a microwave, and men don't like that. They want to be looked after.

  

  Marie Helvin
  • Men
  • Space

• Nature itself is the best physician.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Nature
  • Physician

• Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Courage
  • Hero
  • Coward

• It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

  

  V. S. Pritchett