Jonathan Raban Quotes

Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

Jonathan Raban

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FailureArtSoulJealousyMeThink

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Anatole France

LifeShortKnowWantWillEternal

The more in shape you are, the harder you can push yourself.

Michael Bisping

YourselfPushYouMoreShapeHarder

You can't sit there and worry about everything.

Michael Bloomberg

WorryYouEverythingSitAbout

This is going to sound crazy, but there was a period of time where on TLC they would show those surgeries - like a woman had a 90-pound tumor, or they separated these twins. And my sister and I - she lived in Ohio when I lived in California - would watch them together on the phone.

Shonda Rhimes

TimeTogetherWomanCrazySister

Donald Trump's vision of America, his nativist vision of America, his fear mongering - that's what we have to fight.

Tom Perez

FearVisionFightAmericaTrumpHis

Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.

Mona Simpson

WorkWhiteDownGoJacketClean

I am not a fan of rats or pigeons. In New York City, they have become very confident. When I was a child, you went on the subways, and the rats would stay down on the tracks, but now they hang out on the platform.

Julia Stiles

I AmNew YorkChildCityConfident

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.

Jon Pertwee

SeriousActorSeemBeenGently

Most achievers I know are people who have made a strong and deep dedication to pursuing a particular goal. That dedication took a tremendous amount of effort.

Donald Johanson

DedicationEffortPeopleDeepStrong

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

Brad Gilbert

LearningLearnYouAlwaysWhereGot

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

Penny Marshall

TechnologyPeopleBadPersonalGuy

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Paul Whiteman

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