John le Carre Quotes

I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a book from end to end. I don't remember any of his ladies being bookish. So I was entirely dependent on my schoolteachers for my early reading with the exception of 'The Wind in the Willows,' which a stepmother read to me when I was in hospital.

John le Carre

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FatherMeWindBookReadingEnd

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

Andrew Dominik

BestProcessTryingAlwaysMovie

The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except Antarctica, they're in tropical rain forests, they're in deserts, they've evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they're capable of incredibly long-distance flights.

Michael Dickinson

SuccessGreatRainCapableWithin

For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.

John Thorn

LifeHopeBaseballLosingWinning

What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.

Steve Lacy

StrategySurvivalDiscouragedResist

I like going absurd pretty quickly. You don't waste any time when you're doing theater of the ridiculous.

Stephen Karam

TimeDoingYouRidiculousPretty

Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.

Sofia Vergara

CoffeeKnowListenUnitedColombia

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

Shirley Knight

WomenMenGetWomen AreOlder

If I don't get something done at the office at 4:30 in the afternoon, I can go back to it at 10:00 in the evening.

Tom Perez

EveningBackI CanGoDoneOffice

The Rice Dream rice milk is like a savior in my life, and I couldn't live without it. The Earth Balance soy butter is so good you could eat it with a spoon.

Rory Freedman

LifeGoodLiveBalanceMy LifeYou

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer.

Julia Margaret Cameron

MenPrayerSoulManGreatnessDuty

I went to New York, I think at the end of 2010, and did a competition called IMTA. I didn't do that well in modeling and ended up winning male actor of the year, so a bunch of agencies wanted to sign me, and I ended up moving out to L.A. in 2011.

Joseph David-Jones

CompetitionNew YorkMeMovingThink

I got married because it was the right time and the right thing to do.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

TimeRight TimeThe Right ThingRight

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