Bruce Chatwin Quotes

The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.

Bruce Chatwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?

Robert Redford

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Coming of age as a young queer man of color, it was a rarity to see any reflections of myself portrayed in mainstream media. Turning on the television or going to the movies was an escape into the imagination, yet it did not allow me a place of true connection to what I was viewing on the screen in front of me.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

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So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?

Stephen Hawking

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If I stop practising, I will be an average singer. There are a lot of singers I know who hardly practise, yet sing well.

Sonu Nigam

StopKnowWillAverageSingerWell

I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.

Steven Gerrard

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Women like being kissed.

Rod Stewart

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My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life.

Lisa Kristine

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The first time I did stand-up was on a dare.

Judy Gold

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I think getting the rest of the guys in the band to write is important.

Donnie Iris

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Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.

Donald Rumsfeld

PeopleAmericanLearnYouHouse

My family and I were some of the first people to be genotyped.

Anne Wojcicki

FamilyPeopleFirstSomeWere

What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon.

Peter Landesman

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