Chris Riddell Quotes

In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like never before. The austere 'prayer book' paper that permitted the space for Shepard's illustrations to Pepys' diaries is now being recreated in the digital era.

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• If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Good
  • Try

• Parenting is an impossible job at any age.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Job
  • Age
  • Parenting

• The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • American
  • Strong

• Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Order

• Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Boxing

• Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Chance
  • Note
  • Seldom

• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Great
  • Music
  • Love

• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Tired

• The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Enjoy

• Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Police
  • More
  • Detective

• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Tennis

• What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • For Her

• I don't mind dating younger men now.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Dating

• Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Great
  • Men
  • Fame

• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Always
  • Group
  • Fair

• I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Book
  • Happy
  • Write

• In elementary school, I loved the 'Bailey School Kids' series. It was about a group of classmates who would speculate whether adults in their lives were supernatural beings. I read literally every single book in the series.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • School
  • Book
  • Kids

• The only reason Hubble works is because we have a space shuttle.

  

  John M. Grunsfeld
  • Space

• Harry Dresden: Tonight you will be visited by three spirits, the ghosts of indictment past, present and future. They will teach you the true meaning of 'you are still a scumbag criminal.'

  

  Jim Butcher
  • True
  • Future
  • Past

• No matter how tight the shot is, if I'm narrating it too much, there's a barrier between you and the experience, because the process of reading a book, or watching a movie, or watching a play is that you're watching a dream.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Movie

• In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like never before. The austere 'prayer book' paper that permitted the space for Shepard's illustrations to Pepys' diaries is now being recreated in the digital era.

  

  Chris Riddell
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