John le Carre Quotes

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

John le Carre

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeMarriageLiveDailyHope

I wasn't beautiful, so there were plenty of character roles. I never did any Shakespeare, I'm far too superficial for that. I just act instinctively.

Joan Hickson

CharacterBeautifulNeverActJust

I have two cousins with juvenile diabetes. They both contracted the disease before the age of 5, and it was so heartbreaking watching them go through daily blood tests and injections. It is such a difficult disease to live with and requires constant attention; a tough thing to explain to a child.

Amy Robach

LiveDailyAgeChildToughGo

When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways.

Stephen Graham Jones

HeartMindLateTwoFictionBeing

I love Los Angeles. I love Seattle, too, which is where we have our home. But the notion of spending a lot of time in Los Angeles has been exciting to me for years. The community down there is great.

Steve Ballmer

LoveHomeCommunityGreatTimeMe

One can only improvise what one knows.

David Thewlis

OnlyImproviseKnows

In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

Bobbie Ann Mason

HomeRootsAmericaDreamCountry

Every hour that goes by with family separation policies in effect is another hour that mothers weep thinking of their children, another hour that kids are fearfully wondering where their parents have been taken, another hour that trauma deepens.

Pramila Jayapal

FamilyChildrenParentsThinking

A full understanding of what happens in our everyday lives needs to take into account what happened at the Big Bang. And not only is that intrinsically interesting and just kind of cool to think about, but it's also a mystery that is not given much attention by working scientists; it's a little bit underappreciated.

Sean M. Carroll

CoolThinkInterestingUnderstanding

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Thomas Jefferson

FearTruthWorldWishUnknownWhole

I am not going to speculate about the emotions that might be involved in avian infidelity.

Tim Birkhead

I AmEmotionsInfidelityGoingAbout

Free speech is one of the most important things to me, but I think it gets confusing when it comes to offense. Because for one, just because you have the right to say anything, it doesn't mean you have to.

Ricky Gervais

MeFreeThinkSpeechYouImportant

No one did more singlehandedly to smash the BNP in Britain than me.

Nigel Farage

MeMoreThanDidSmashBritain

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