John le Carre Quotes

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

John le Carre

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 19, 1931

Topics

WorldYouNeverExistenceDouble

Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life.

Jimmy Cliff

LifeMeThinkMy LifeRelationships

We journalists are never so idiotic as when we analyze things that we shouldn't be analyzing.

Joe Klein

NeverThingsAnalyzeAnalyzing

Anybody can get lost in themselves.

Joe Nichols

LostGetThemselvesAnybody

A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.

John Hodgman

Real EstateMediaWantRealOwn

I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses, made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently... This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.

Anita Roddick

BusinessMoneyI AmPeopleLooking

It's not like I'm looking for things that I can direct that I can also act in, but when it's right, I feel like the actor side of me wants to have that opportunity.

Steve Buscemi

OpportunityMeLookingFeelI Can

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

LoveLove IsThin

Drama schools say if arts funding is cut, people can't afford to go, but I didn't go to drama school.

Tom Hollander

SchoolPeopleDramaGoSayArts

Scientology, Buddhism, the Kabbalah... if it makes people's lives better, and easier, then I'll do it. Why not? People scoffed at Christianity 2,000 years ago, didn't they?

Robbie Williams

PeopleBetterWhyYearsWhy Not

As mayor, I used to always feel the important thing is that people respect me, not love me - but it is really much nicer when they love you, too. I'm going to try to keep it that way.

Rudy Giuliani

LoveRespectPeopleMeLove MeYou

The Bible is God's Word expressed and revealed to his creature, man.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

GodManBibleWordHisCreature

In the end, you make your reputation and you have your success based upon credibility and being able to provide people who are really hungry for information what they want.

Brit Hume

SuccessPeopleReputationEndYou

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