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John le Carre Quotes

I write and walk and swim and drink.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Walk Drink Write Swim I Write

Equities are boring; bonds are disgusting.

Jeremy Grantham

Boring Bonds Disgusting

It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.

Money Connections Reach You Want

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Environmental Universe Find Try Out

I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

Myself I Am Poetry People Me Think

What do you need to succeed in business? You need the ability to think critically and communicate, and those things you can get just as easily out of a philosophy degree.

Matthew Stewart

Business Succeed Think You Need Out

Really, a wedding is the first and biggest party people throw in their lifetime, so there's a lot of challenges and a lot of pressure.

People Challenges Pressure Wedding

Violence is part of everybody's life, whether you like or express it or not. My work utilises all the energies that I have, and part of it is violent, and I'd rather it be out than in.

Cornelia Parker

Life Work Violence You Out Rather

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

Thoughts Saying Think Thinking Empty

We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them.

Family Together Beginning I Am Me

When I'm not as humble as I ought to be, I tend to get knocked down. What I do is to glorify God.

God Humble Down Get Knocked Ought

That's my goal, to feel like I've done the best I could. When I've done that, anything else that happens is a bonus.

Best Feel Goal Done Anything Like

I suddenly had to chase after my pictures... Pictures are like taxis during rush hour - if you're not fast enough, someone else will get there first.

Someone Enough You Fast Pictures

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