Simon Callow Quotes

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.

Simon Callow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 13, 1949

Topics

LifeGreatStoryThoughtLife Story

Nobody wants to hear me rap.

Joe Mauer

MeNobodyRapHearWants

The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise.

John Berger

ConfidenceHopeDarknessFlameDark

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

Maya Angelou

ManMeEarlyVillageTalkMean

People come into fights against me and say this and that, but when they realise how quick and how hard I hit, their game plan disappears.

Amir Khan

PeopleMeGamePlanSayHard

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this - when you die, will you be happy when everybody else is crying?

Tony Campolo

HappyBe HappyDieYouBornWill

What I really enjoy is when someone who I used to have a crush on, a female from my industry, comes up to me at a party and says, 'Oh, I've been dying to meet you. I've had such a crush on you.'

Rupert Penry-Jones

MeSomeoneEnjoyYouPartyMeet

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

Mitchel Resnick

ScienceCollegeYouNeverOwnJust

Whether the task is fixing health care, upgrading K-12 education, bolstering national security, or a host of other missions, the U.S. is better at patching problems than fixing them.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

EducationHealthProblemsBetter

What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think 'So what?' They should think again.

Doug Ose

PeopleThinkHouseMeanRepublican

The problem is we need much more moral content.

Cornel West

ProblemMoralMoreNeedContent

There's no question in my mind of the value in technology in fueling young minds. Like any other tool, if you simply throw it in the classroom and don't consider how best to take advantage of that tool, and you try the old ways with a new piece of technology on the desk, it's no panacea.

Craig Federighi

TechnologyBestValueMindYouNew

In the spring of 1984, I was crushed not to make my Little League All-Star team. I will not go into too much detail, but imagine all your best friends were invited to a one-month party, and you weren't. You could watch it from afar but never get past the fence line. It was an early and abrupt welcome to adolescent loneliness.

Brian Shactman

LonelinessBestPastWelcomeSpring

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Simon Callow