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Melvyn Bragg Quotes

We start out as sand and soot out there in the universe, and who knows, in 40 trillion years' time we might come back. But if we come back without memory, it doesn't really interest me.

Melvyn Bragg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: english
Birth: October 6, 1939

Topics

Time Memory Me Start Universe Sand

I've gone through terrible periods of depression. But, at the core of my being, there's a strange, out-of-place optimist. Despite what I'm feeling, I'm always able to get up and do my job. Which means the world to me.

Jenny Lewis

Depression Job Me World Feeling Up

Finding meaning in your work is your responsibility. Any job can be better when you actively work to find meaning in the work.

Mel Robbins

Work Responsibility Job Better You

The older I get, the better I used to be.

John McEnroe

Better Used Get Older

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

Ann Demeulemeester

Good Music Fashion Rock Anarchy

I think, in every person's life, you have ups and downs. You learn so much about yourself, sometimes even more, in the down times. Unfortunately, I had to go through it in public, which was not easy.

Ana Ivanovic

Life Yourself Think Ups And Downs

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

Robert Wyatt

Me Writing Find Never Hard Singer

To an extreme athlete, there's a certain appeal to doing extreme things - seeking the most extreme physical challenges in some of the most extreme climates in the world. Testing and expanding the limits of human endurance is kind of my thing.

Dean Karnazes

Challenges World Limits Doing Kind

I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.

Chelsea Cain

Daughter Blame Writing You First

In my family, we can't just sit and be together. We have to be shelling peas or husking corn or something. A larger task. Some way of being with people.

Chuck Palahniuk

Family Together People Way Task Sit

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

Brian Molko

Me Forward Desire Songwriting Pushed

It doesn't matter that I'm taking a fight on a month's notice. I've taken many fights on two seconds' notice.

Brian Ortega

Fight Matter Two Month Notice Taken

If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim.

Noomi Rapace

Myself See Victim Then