Simon Winchester Quotes

Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.

Simon Winchester

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 28, 1944

Topics

NatureLivePeopleEvilWorldYou

One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.

Michael Gartner

ThingsRatherAboutTomNicestDan

Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you.

Tony Bennett

SingingSongThinkingYouInside

I want to err on the side of constitutional liberty and freedom.

Ron Johnson

FreedomLibertyWantSideErr

I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

Michael Pena

GoodMeWhoSendVeryReally

I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,' but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that's a good person.

Miranda Kerr

GoodMyselfPeopleMeThinkYou

If you are not diverse, you are saying, 'I don't want to be successful.'

Mindy Grossman

SayingYouWantSuccessfulDiverse

Most of my read on America is through looking through the front windshield of a bus and hanging out with country music fans backstage.

Dierks Bentley

MusicLookingAmericaCountryBus

It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.

Christine Lagarde

GrowthWomenMenPictureLaborOut

I'm happy; I'm a happy person.

Brian Wilson

HappyPersonHappy Person

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

Anthony Horowitz

TimeTogetherYouWayNeedElegant

I am actually a huge supporter of the Canadian athletes, and they are all really nice people.

Ashton Eaton

I AmPeopleNiceCanadianActually

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

Peter Stuyvesant

SucceedSmallLossRightLegAttack

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