Simon Winchester Quotes

We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful reminder of where we are.

Simon Winchester

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeStupidThinkTryingPowerful

If, later on, my daughter wants to be in a girl group, then I think I am going to oppose.

Jessica Jung

GirlDaughterI AmThinkGroupThen

I think 'The Sunset Tree' is really the album on which I really learned to trust other musicians, which is so important.

John Darnielle

SunsetTrustTreeThinkMusicians

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

John Ciardi

LoveLove IsYoungExcitementOld

When I was a kid I got so much help from the Church. When I was a kid, our family was so poor they couldn't afford me to go to school, so there was an American family that send the money to the church to support my school fees.

John Woo

FamilyMoneySchoolSupportMeHelp

One of the biggest misconceptions that a woman has is that a man has to accept her the way she is. No, we don't. I don't know who told you that. We like the bright and shiny. If you stop wearing the makeup, stop putting on nail polish, stop wearing high heels, you'll lose us.

Steve Harvey

WomanManMakeupYouLoseStop

With a monologue, you can be unendingly elliptical.

Mike Birbiglia

YouMonologue

I look like a child - and I love it!

Monique Coleman

LoveChildLookLikeI Love

All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.

Lucas Till

FocusMeAttentionMadPlaceKid

My ship was also in better condition than when she sailed from Boston on her long voyage. She was still as sound as a nut, and as tight as the best ship afloat. She did not leak a drop - not one drop!

Joshua Slocum

BestShipBetterLongSheBoston

My mother's prayers protect me. Negativity, nothing reaches me.

Dhanush

MotherMeNegativityNothingProtect

I can't write what I don't believe in.

Dorothy Allison

BelieveWrite

I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

Brian Eno

HelpYouClumsyLikeHeMoved

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