Jonathan Coe Quotes

I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.

Jonathan Coe

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PersonalityWritingFeelCircleOver

How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.

Joanna Scott

WordsLieFallRiseConsciousness

You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.

Joel Salatin

FoodYouEatIndustrialGetWanna

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

John Lithgow

YouBecomeKidsYourFrontReaders

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

CourageYourselfOthersShareKeep

Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of being a history enthusiast, my father was also a comics fan, and he kept his stash in the top drawer of his dresser, in easy reach of a kid making a beeline to the bathroom.

Jeff Kinney

FatherHistoryLooking BackLooking

Google (and Bing and Yahoo!) don't 'owe' any company traffic. If a company has to spend more on advertising on Google, in addition to investing in search-engine-optimization, that is not a violation of any law.

Marvin Ammori

LawAdvertisingTrafficGoogleMore

We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

StrongCorruptionCircleImpunity

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I believe that clothes should make a woman feel beautiful. But sometimes it's the little things like cut and fit and sex appeal that make a large impact.

Joseph Altuzarra

BeautifulWomanLittle ThingsBelieve

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

Dick Wolf

MyselfSeeHardly

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

Drew Barrymore

MotivationalLifeLoveMyselfMe

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

Deepika Padukone

MeStoryFilmmakingFilmThanOther

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

Deidre Hall

GovernmentFindNeverAfraidOutUs

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