Simon Winchester Quotes

Why do we as a people choose to live in beautiful and risky places? Beautiful places are relatively dangerous; the forces that made them beautiful are the same forces that will ultimately destroy them.

Simon Winchester

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LiveBeautifulPeopleChooseWhy

On the movie side of things, the difficulties come with so few movies being made, and when they are, it seems that it's a marketing game. Story sometimes takes a backseat to that one grand marketing idea.

Jim Rash

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I'm friendly with Laurence Luckinbill. He's a great man.

Joe Mantello

GreatManGreat ManFriendlyHe

Malicious lying is usually a matter of need, but often the cruelest things we say are the truth.

Jesse Ball

TruthSayLyingMatterNeedThings

I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad.

Jennifer Ellison

ChickenSaladEatSalmonLot

I would work every day if I could.

Jean Nidetch

WorkDayEvery DayIf I CouldWould

I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.

Mike Trout

LifeBaseballMeAlwaysPretty

I spent my childhood outdoors on my grandparents' farm. I learned to ride a motorbike when I was about six, a little PeeWee 50. I'd climb trees - there was a big weeping willow.

Miranda Kerr

RideChildhoodClimbOutdoorsTrees

I have a credit card and a phone. I answer emails; I answer questions on chat in the middle of the day. Then, late at night, I write against other people who do just that.

Joshua Cohen

DayPeopleNightQuestionsCredit

No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

Jose Padilha

ViolenceWonderMeetHappenStreets

I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

Christopher Hitchens

LastInternationalismPartActually

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Christopher Morley

UniverseTheologyDictatedSigned

I'm actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I've got kids, so I do have a lot of faces.

Coolio

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