Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

I am a passionate nonfinisher. Life is too short, and there are too many great books to read, so if I lose interest or respect, I switch. But when, of course, when you really fall in love with a book, all the others are ignored.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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LifeLoveRespectGreatI AmBook

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.

Jesse Eisenberg

TechnologySocietyAcceptWillAfter

West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.

Melanie Fiona

LifeBalanceAmericanPerfectWest

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

Maximillian Degenerez

ChildrenChildMeBrainyNeverMine

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

Robert Mapplethorpe

WorkGodArtHandsHold

People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both.

Robert Herjavec

PeopleThinkBornAskCombination

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

Matt Damon

LifeMyselfPeopleMeEnoughWorth

I'm gonna take this world by storm. Pun unintended.

Storm Reid

StormWorldTakePunGonna

There's no such thing as putting extra effort in on one day than the other. Every single day is a lot of effort, usually maximum effort every day.

Rob Gronkowski

DayEffortEvery DayOne DaySingle

The ancient Greeks and Romans were comfortable with any number of deities and were quite open to allowing conquered nations to continue to worship in whatever ways they saw fit, as long as they didn't mind having an emperor who required taxes and tributes.

Jay Parini

MindLongComfortableWorshipTaxes

There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.

Jasper Fforde

DegreeBooksCertainCreeps

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

Jonah Lehrer

TimePerspectiveCreativityCreative

As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.

Christopher Moore

MeRichardEddieRichard PryorPryor

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