Jonathan Raban Quotes

Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.

Jonathan Raban

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 14, 1942

Topics

HouseWhiteMoreWhite HouseBeen

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

John Cleese

DesireNowThingsUsedGetJust One

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

Roger Maris

GreatManGreat ManWantDamnBreak

A few brands have asked me to design shorts for them. I'm not sure about that. I don't want to have them as a mass product, and suddenly everybody is walking around in them.

Juergen Teller

MeDesignWalkingWantProductSure

Every time you work on a project, it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours. That's the thing - it replenishes you to do something else.

Joss Whedon

WorkTimeVacationYouProject

I don't have too much time to spend with my family. But when I have that time, I put everything into that. Nothing else. I spend all that time with them.

Jose Reyes

FamilyTimeToo MuchNothingMuch

My mom would keep all kinds of materials in her classroom for children for reading. She kept comic books, newspapers, sports magazines, and books of all kinds.

Diana Gabaldon

ChildrenSportsMomReadingSheHer

I'm really a believer in being in situations that feel new and awkward and different. And I love that feeling of being in motion - that sense you find when you're traveling.

Doug Aitken

LoveFeelYouFeelingFindNew

I can't keep secrets for crap.

Brett Eldredge

GirlMomThinkSexyYouWatching

I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.

Arnold Palmer

FutureTimePastPeopleBetter

It's hard to think of another body of work that is more universally beloved - I don't think I've ever met someone who has encountered 'Calvin and Hobbes' without falling for them.

Anthony Marra

WorkThinkSomeoneBodyMoreHard

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.

William H. Seward

SlaveryFreeNowSlaveOnlyWould

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

MusicJust BecauseListenKidRadio

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