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Craig Brown Quotes

Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: english
Birth: May 23, 1957

Topics

Confidence May Complete Blazer Last

I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was.

Hair Always Older Than Facial Had

I pointedly avoid doing sequels, since for the most part I find that a sequel rarely stands up to the original.

Doing Find Up Original Avoid Most

In stories, those are the moments that hit me the most: when people really don't expect it, don't have it much in their lives, and suddenly, an act of kindness. It's like, 'Oh, God! Heartbreaking!'

Kindness God People Me Moments Act

What irritates me about sci-fi is that it got hijacked by video games and also became so high-concept it was all about ideas and gadgets and technology and nothing about the human experience.

Technology Experience Me Ideas Games

Watching an entrepreneur fail is sad, but watching him fail from lack of nerve is tragic.

Sad Entrepreneur Watching Him Fail

Soros is the best loss taker I've ever seen. He doesn't care whether he wins or loses on a trade. If a trade doesn't work, he's confident enough about his ability to win on other trades that he can easily walk away from the position.

Stanley Druckenmiller

Work Best Walk Win Care Confident

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.

Evil Who Unwillingly

I just know that I love to write songs, and I have for a long time.

Love Time Long Know Long Time Write

If you don't have the time or money to get to the gym, work out at home. It saves tons of time and makes life more efficient.

Mary Helen Bowers

Life Work Home Time Money You

If you're a retailer and know that once a year you're going to get Mary Higgins Clark's book on a given date, you're going to have an awful lot of copies out there in time for that. You'd have to be simple-minded not to do that - although bookselling prior to 1950 never made that connection.

Time Book Year You Connection Know

The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.

Science World Musicians Engineers

Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against modern' readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn't true in some literal sense.

Effort Bible Push Christian Back

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