John le Carre Quotes

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.

John le Carre

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MoneyDecisionsWrongRidiculousUp

I don't feel safe around a lot of people.

Jessica White

PeopleFeelSafeAroundLot

Marriage is tough. I can tell my wife all day long that I love her, but it doesn't mean anything if you don't show that.

Jeff Nichols

LoveMarriageDayWifeToughYou

I've twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.

Stephen Hough

GivingCareerGiving UpTrainUp

I went into a Beverly Hills shop to buy an attache case. They had 250 cases on their shelves. I asked an attractive saleswoman if they carried one made of belting leather. She said 'no.' That was the end of the conversation. She made no attempt to show me another case that would provide equal service. I didn't buy an attache case.

Stanley Marcus

ServiceMeEndConversationSaid

My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.'

Simon Cowell

SayingBelieveCreateMy OwnOwn

When we talk about novels, we don't often talk about imagination. Why not? Does it seem too first grade? In reviews, you read about limpid prose, about the faithful reproduction of consciousness, about moral heft, but rarely about the power of pure, unadulterated imagination.

Robin Sloan

PowerImaginationYouMoralWhy

Banks' beer. There's nothing like it! To Brazil. And to Barbados justice.

Ronald Biggs

JusticeBeerNothingBrazilLike

In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.

Marvin Hagler

RespectPainFightPeopleMeWorld

I think we all achieve a little. You can say, 'That's relative.' But when you think of world events, it really is very small.

Michael Kadoorie

WorldSmallThinkYouAchieveSay

Ideology has very little to do with 'consciousness' - it is profoundly unconscious.

Louis Althusser

LittleConsciousnessIdeologyVery

My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

Jay Roach

AmazingCriticismComedyHappenGuy

The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.

Colin Powell

BetterCountryCommentGotOffRid

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by John le Carre