Simon Winchester Quotes

I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.

Simon Winchester

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ScienceSocietyInterestingFindWay

So I've had lots of different bands over the years who have stayed with me for certain tours.

Joan Armatrading

MeOverYearsDifferentWhoCertain

Every time I get up in the morning, melodies occur to me and I start trying to shape lyrics to melodies.

Andrew Bird

MorningTimeMeStartTryingShape

Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city.

John James Audubon

GodHeartGratefulMountainsCity

I insist on doing all my own film stunts, although they are often worked out in advance by a stunt man who then advises me on the best and safest method of performing it.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

BestManMeDoingMy OwnOut

We live in a world in which there are many live things other than human beings, and many of these things can seem beautiful and amusing and interesting to us if they can catch our attention and if we can step back from our crabbed and limiting and lonely anthropocentricity to consider them.

Sue Hubbell

LiveBeautifulStepWorldLonely

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

Sidney Poitier

LifeMePureDeterminedRandomness

We kind of forget because what television tends to do with these professions like lawyers and doctors and police officers, we create them on such a heroic level that you kind of forget that these are really people.

Rocky Carroll

PolicePeopleYouTelevisionCreate

I love my job, and I love books. I read anything, including cereal boxes. I care deeply about what people think of my books, and I memorize my reviews. I love to hear from my readers.

Lisa Scottoline

LoveJobPeopleThinkCareAnything

A job is a very healthy thing to do.

David Soul

JobHealthyVeryThingHealthy Thing

My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.

Chiaki Kuriyama

CharacterPeopleThinkThoughtSee

The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.

Peter Beard

NatureBeautyWomenLeftLastThing

I feel that once you go into rehearsal, you need to focus on the show in the room.

Scott Ellis

FocusFeelYouGoNeedRoom

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