Philip Guedalla Quotes

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Philip Guedalla

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: historian
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 12, 1889 - December 16, 1944

Topics

TruthPeopleTelling The TruthAbout

If you want me in your film, do a favored-nation clause. Don't determine my worth based on what's left over.

Jessica Chastain

MeWorthYouWantOverLeft

But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.

Michael Behe

VisionEyesSimpleDevelopmentMore

I don't want to date. But I do have dreams about a great love.

Sophie B. Hawkins

LoveDreamsGreatWantDateAbout

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.

Julia Glass

PassionBestSurviveGoMattersOwn

Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities.

Joseph Rykwert

YouUseMixedAboutCities

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

Jonathan Safran Foer

FearReflectionI AmDownWallMore

Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war.

Donald Berwick

HealthCompetitionWarWaitCare

I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.

Johnny Knoxville

LookingLoseMoviesAnythingMaking

In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines.

Chuck Palahniuk

WorkWordsPurposeYouLineFifty

For the most part, the first thing people I meet that aren't Mormon say is, 'I grew up with a Mormon family. They're the nicest people I know.' So when I see these statistics that it's the most hated religion, I don't know where they're getting that from.

Brandon Flowers

FamilyReligionPeopleStatistics

I don't go to pubs.

Peter Capaldi

GoPubs

Writing about your family is the hardest thing, unless you had the perfect happy family life, which very few of us have had.

Shana Alexander

LifeFamilyHappyWritingYouUs

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