John le Carre Quotes

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

John le Carre

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildhoodBalanceGreenThinkFeel

We believe that the best solutions come from solving your own problem. If you have a real problem, there's likely someone else who can relate. That's how Airbnb was born.

Joe Gebbia

BestBelieveSomeoneProblemYou

The Mahavishnu Orchestra - when it came out, it was an explosion, completely unexpected as far as I was concerned. I was just forming a band.

John McLaughlin

UnexpectedBandOrchestraOutJust

Men display less self-doubt and lead with what seems always like a sense of force and direction. We are not as familiar with women leaders, and so we question their skills. As women, we always need to work harder to prove our competence.

Maureen Chiquet

WorkWomenMenDirectionSkills

Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.' Cartoonists don't go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off.

Jeff MacNelly

HopeJobGoSayWillWay

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

Sofia Coppola

LoveStoryWithoutNerdyLove Story

The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism.

Sonny Perdue

GreatDestinationDrivingHeritage

I came to the conclusion that the very best thing for Rosie, from the time she was 2 weeks old, was for us to get married.

Robert Blake

TimeBestSheOldUsGet

I think that hip-hop has done what it was supposed to have done, which is it defied all the laws of what is statistically a music genre and what statistically is not a music genre. Because it wasn't supposed to be here.

Monie Love

MusicThinkDoneHip-HopHereLaws

I want to see the Doncaster Rovers supporters get the club the success it deserves.

Louis Tomlinson

SuccessWantClubSeeGetDeserves

I first became aware of the delights of the natural world when my father, an entomologist, presented me with what looked like a twig. When it got up and walked, my delight was such that I wrote a poem, 'To a Walking Stick.'

Jean Craighead George

FatherMeWorldWalkingFirstUp

I think, if you're in the United States, we've seen people trying to speak out in different ways and trying to make themselves heard about the United States' failure to move on generationally, given the long-festering wound of our history around race.

Joshua Oppenheimer

FailureHistoryPeopleSpeakThink

I'm going to stay on stage until I drop dead. Then I'm going to have myself stuffed, like Trigger, and I'm going to put me in a museum.

Debbie Reynolds

MyselfMeMuseumDeadStageGoing

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