John Christopher Quotes

The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for.

John Christopher

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GoodKnowledgeFreedomEvilThought

I've never had a record in my life. People would buy somebody a record for their birthday or Christmas or something like that. People used to play records in their houses. I used to borrow. I only had about 10 records. That's all I needed. And I'd borrow them from anybody.

Jimmy Savile

LifeBirthdayPeopleMy LifePlay

If you live a good life, that seems to be what really matters. If there is something afterwards, terrific. If not, you haven't lost anything.

Joe Morton

LifeGoodLiveGood LifeYouLost

The most profound lessons about journalism I've learned have been taught to me by the people I've covered.

Jodi Kantor

PeopleMeJournalismProfoundBeen

In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

Jhumpa Lahiri

ArchitectureSchoolWonderWhyWrite

We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.

Johann Lamont

FaceRunWillEconomyUpBeat

You have to be fulfilled in order for everyone else to be fulfilled. I'm a way happier, more pleasant person to be around when I take time for myself.

Jenna Dewan

TimeMyselfYouPersonWayMore

To me it's incontrovertible that investment in people, investment in business, creates jobs; they don't destroy jobs.

Stephen Pagliuca

BusinessPeopleMeInvestmentJobs

Do I want everyone in Australia to know who I am? Absolutely. But the only way I can do that is by winning fights.

Robert Whittaker

I AmWinningI CanKnowAustralia

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

Diane Sawyer

LoveThinkAmericanFancyIdolSoon

My hope is that if I take good care of my skin and use Botox, I won't have to use anything else.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

GoodHopeCareSkinAnythingTake

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

Bob Dylan

ThinkPoetCallWhoI ThinkHimself

Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8-year-old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures; lately, we find them in their bunk beds embarked upon two-hour comic-reading benders.

Anthony Doerr

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