Philip Pullman Quotes

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

Philip Pullman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 19, 1946

Topics

WritingAttentionRealClaimLies

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

John D. Rockefeller

GivingWayInvestingSameJust

I went to bar mitzvahs as a kid. I had a lot of classmates who are Jewish.

John David Washington

ClassmatesKidJewishBarWhoHad

The largest outbreak of bird flu in American history was an H5N2 virus, which led to the deaths of 17 million domestic birds and cost the nation more than $400 million during an outbreak in Pennsylvania that started in 1983.

Michael Greger

HistoryBirdBirdsAmericanFlu

To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and observation to understand a subject.

Simon Sinek

DoneObservationUnderstandBecome

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians.

Toots Thielemans

TodayGenerationMusiciansNewJazz

I still think probably the only thing I'm suited for is being a boy from Texas.

Tommy Lee Jones

TexasThinkBoyBeingOnlyStill

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

Tom Vilsack

FightMomAmericaFarmingPersonal

Most of the catfish you find at the fish counter has been farmed. Though I usually prefer to buy and eat wild fish, farmed catfish taste cleaner, without the muddy taste of their wild relatives.

Tom Douglas

FishYouFindWildEatTaste

This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.

Ruggero Leoncavallo

ArtMeDeepNewStudyImpression

I can wear a sexy dress to any red carpet event. My wedding is my chance to go all the way and wear a princess silhouette.

Roselyn Sanchez

RedDressChanceSexyWeddingI Can

I've often wondered if the trade-off for growing up in the relative newness and freshness of the West Coast was befuddlement when it comes to historical preservation. We don't have many old things, and we don't really know what to do with the few that are around when our default response is to compost or field burn.

Mary Pilon

Growing UpGrowingKnowBurnOldUp

Operating from 1975 to 1979, S-21 became the most infamous of 196 such prison camps the Khmer Rouge established throughout Cambodia, primarily because so many of its prisoners were the purged party loyal - and because Duch's methods were so stunningly brutal.

Michael Paterniti

PrisonPartyLoyalBecauseCambodia

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