Claire Tomalin Quotes

I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

Claire Tomalin

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• All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Work
  • Transform
  • Rural

• I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Think
  • Lose
  • Taste

• I feel like we've already seen the burger truck, we've seen the lobster-roll truck. There's even healthy-food trucks now. But a big-thick-pizza truck? Come on, man. That'd be amazing.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Man
  • Food
  • Amazing

• Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Real
  • Best
  • Thought

• I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • People
  • Up
  • Environment

• I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Work
  • Love
  • Would

• One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Black

• Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Model
  • Actress

• The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that's really it.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Live
  • Sleep
  • Two

• I don't take money seriously, so I can't keep any.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Money
  • Take
  • Seriously

• I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Up
  • Live
  • Success

• A goal properly set is halfway reached.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Goal
  • Halfway
  • Properly

• If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse is wrong. If it isn't exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Great
  • Believe
  • May

• But is it true love, in the rectum? That’s what bothers me sometimes.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • True

• Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Life
  • World
  • Failure

• I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.

  

  Umberto Eco

• 'It is a mistake,' he said, 'to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Experience
  • Environment
  • Mistake

• I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Art
  • Photography
  • Hunger

• I feel like not knowing Joe Torre is a hole in my New York experience.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Experience

• Gratitude is heaven itself.

  

  William Blake
  • Heaven
  • Gratitude

• I was born in Singapore, and I lived there until I was 12. I had a very fortunate upbringing.

  

  Kevin Kwan

• The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge--conscious, rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Knowledge
  • Wonder
  • Child

• I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

  

  Claire Tomalin