Jim Crace Quotes

There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.

Jim Crace

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 1, 1946

Topics

PlantsGardenJust BecauseWhyMore

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this dark chapter of European history that we now have the opportunity to close.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

OpportunityHistoryUnhappyDarkNow

You can tell a lot about a person by the people who work for them.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

WorkPeopleYouPersonTellWho

Nobody from my label called any of their labels to get this done. Most of it happened very naturally. Mary and I have been friends for a long time. Then Jay-Z offered.

Angie Martinez

TimeFriendsLongNobodyLong Time

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.

Michael Foot

EggSittingRoyalChinaHen

Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.

Tom Hardy

FearSurviveYouWillFloatingSee

Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.

Robert Winston

GoodChildrenMedicineYouLook

I think the defining moment in my career is the day that I moved to Nashville - September 1, 2001. That's the biggest step to getting here is making that move. Anything that happens, the wonderful opportunities that happen to you, can't happen until you make that move.

Luke Bryan

MomentDayStepOpportunitiesThink

I don't party. I don't drink. I don't smoke.

Logic

SmokePartyDrink

I'm the female Simon Cowell. He said I'm the scariest woman he's ever met. I asked him why he never dated me, and he said I was too intimidating.

Janice Dickinson

WomanMeSaidWhyNeverHim

The people we need to hear from most are the ones who make themselves heard least - except, of course, on Election Day.

Bret Stephens

DayPeopleElectionNeedWhoMost

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

Ariel Gore

DayHabitMeJournalMy OwnWrite

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

Anthony Edwards

FatherHomeChildrenParentingYou

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