Colin Wilson Quotes

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

Colin Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MeLondonGoingWouldWriterStayed

Heels are really hard to wear. I feel bad for every girl that has to wear heels or chooses to wear heels. They're not fun.

Joe Jonas

GirlFunFeelBadHardHeels

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Jerome K. Jerome

FunnyBlessingI AmLookingDisguise

I don't know why some women don't wear make-up. Every woman should gild the lily.

Sonia Rykiel

WomenWomanKnowWhyWearLily

I started out as a business manager for a national hotel chain based in Oklahoma. I got frustrated with what was happening in the state capital - the high cost of doing business and a lack of educated workers.

Mary Fallin

BusinessHotelDoingManagerHigh

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.

Michael Ovitz

Not PerfectPerfectRobotsHumanUs

When you're losing, there's that survival instinct. But when you're handling success, people think it's easier, and they think losing's harder. But handling success, to me, always creates more issues. Are you in touch with reality? With perception?

Mike McCarthy

SuccessLosingPeopleMePerception

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

Jay Alan Sekulow

StrengthHeroWeaknessYouEnemies

Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

Donald Hall

BeginningPoetryEyeSoundAlways

When I started 'Still Missing,' I had a few key plot points in mind, which I played around with mentally for a couple of months, then one day I just started writing. Not having an outline led to some cool plot twists, but also many rewrites! A lot of the plotting happened on subsequent drafts.

Chevy Stevens

DayMindCoolWritingKeyOne Day

My hair is too fine to bleach. I get so much breakage, it's not worth it to dye it.

Christa B. Allen

HairWorthWorth ItNot Worth ItGet

If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound per mile to go to a massage parlor.

Christiaan Barnard

WorkBetterFindGoRunPoor

There is a difference in what people are willing to consider, daytime versus nighttime.

Art Bell

PeopleDifferenceWillingVersus

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