Bruce Chatwin Quotes

As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

Bruce Chatwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 13, 1940 - January 18, 1989

Topics

YouGoPlacesUpGoingFed Up

As a young girl, I definitely struggled with knowing what to do with my hair. I was just in a neighborhood that had mostly white people, and the hair norm was long and sleek and straight. My hair naturally was curly, and I didn't have that many references.

Jillian Hervey

GirlPeopleHairLongWhiteYoung

It is not always a treat to grow up as the heir to a world-famous leader.

Michael Beschloss

LeaderTreatGrowGrow UpAlwaysUp

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

John Perry Barlow

IdeasYouWillIgnorantSystemMass

I never wanted my grandmother to leave my side.

Tori Bowie

GrandmotherNeverLeaveSideWanted

Everyone wants to be an arena act, and it's making country music evolve. People are cutting things more for that arena environment. But who's to say that that is a sign of any more of a successful career than what James Taylor has been able to do, when he still comes and plays the Ryman every two years?

Tracy Lawrence

MusicPeopleEnvironmentCareerSay

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

Tom Glazer

PeopleMeSwimmingThinkThinking

I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

Joyce Carol Oates

HumorYouFallSense Of HumorSay

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

Joseph Wood Krutch

GodManHimCallHeSportsman

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

Jonathan Edwards

MusicBeautifulBestMindSweetWay

I cycle, I take an hour's strenuous walk in the evening, I play tennis twice a week with a trainer, and I sail. I used to ride horses professionally - I'd ride seven or eight horses a day, so I had to be fit for that.

Jonathan Dimbleby

WalkDayRideSailEveningWeek

It's coaches. It's people that are involved in kids' lives at every level, and it's supporting their parents. Their parents need better jobs. So that they can help them with their homework and don't have to work two jobs.

Donna Shalala

WorkParentsPeopleBetterHelpTwo

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

Dorothy Allison

WomenThinkMovementBeenWould

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