Colin Wilson Quotes

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

Colin Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 26, 1931 - December 5, 2013

Topics

FunPeopleFamousYouLosePrivacy

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

John Lothrop Motley

LifeWillUsGiveLuxuriesDispense

A lot of the time I hate acting. It has a lot to do with the way I was brought up in a world where showing your emotions is frowned upon. It's just not manly. I don't do anything in life because I love doing it. It's because I want to be good at it.

Matthew Fox

LifeLoveGoodTimeHateWorld

I think the quality of television, given the amount of time you have, how short you have, is proportionally so much better than most movies.

Michael Douglas

TimeQualityThinkBetterShortYou

I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesn't make me let go.

Stephen Stills

LivePeopleMeRoadEnvironmentGo

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

Tony Campolo

ReligionSocietyPoliticalCreate

Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

Robert Fulghum

PeopleSorryHurtYouPlaySay

The way we allow children to be advertised to is shocking. Eating is a learned behavior, and we've made these kids sitting ducks for all the bad messages about industrialized food. The fact that we allow that to go on is horrifying.

Ruth Reichl

ChildrenFoodEatingBehaviorBad

The Anthroposophical Society is different from other societies in that it will not tolerate any figments of the imagination in its organization but is constructed on the basis of reality.

Rudolf Steiner

ImaginationOrganizationSocietyWill

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Dennis Miller

MoneyThinkDownKindConservative

Under slavery, families were ripped apart, and it was a desire of black men and black women to be together with their loved ones. Family meant something. Spouses meant something.

Derrick Grayson

FamilyWomenMenTogetherSlavery

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

Clarence Day

GoodPlaceGroupFirstAnts

Small unit autonomy, breaking the right rules, cultural influence, and relationship building has always been the heart Special Operations. Something must be done to ensure these are not lost to the big machine of SOCOM.

Brandon Webb

RelationshipHeartBuildingSmall

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