Mark Haddon Quotes

With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

Mark Haddon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 26, 1962

Topics

LiteratureYouEverythingThrough

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

John Hope

EducationHonestyBlessingMoneyMe

To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

Ann Bancroft

DogJobPushInterestingRunAlways

The Band was rebelling against the rebellion. The rebellion went to a place where it became too obvious, too trendy, like you were just following the pack. So it was our choice to get off the bandwagon - no pun intended - and do things that were in our background and what was the most honest thing to do.

Robbie Robertson

YouChoicePlaceRebellionBandGet

See, for some reason, I feel like it's a victory if I wake up one minute before the alarm. It's like I'm in a contest with myself, with my foot kicking around until it wakes up the rest of my body. It's the stupidest thing. But it makes me feel like I've already won something.

Ronda Rousey

MyselfMeVictoryWake UpRestBody

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Rollo May

CourageAheadDespairAbsenceMove

Differences exist in practice and organization between the Lord's Church and man-made institutions.

Russell M. Nelson

PracticeOrganizationChurchLord

My mom introduced me to science-fiction.

Logan Marshall-Green

MeMomScience-FictionIntroduced

Even though I'll do finger warm-ups that go up and down the neck to build up my chops and dexterity, I never, ever sit around and practice the actual licks I'm gonna play live. If you do, then you'll be all worried about the complexity of getting the fingering right and everything else about it, as opposed to the feel.

Dimebag Darrell

LivePracticeFeelYouDownPlay

I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.

Brian Welch

DaughterMoneyDo The Right ThingNow

I partnered with Working Wardrobes because I wanted to be part of an organization that lifts people's spirits.

Ashley Nell Tipton

PeopleOrganizationBecauseWorking

Universal human characteristics are a good base for great art.

Peter Marino

GoodGreatArtHumanUniversalBase

My favorite mode of transport is hot-air ballooning. It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you.

Richard Branson

WindYouGoTransportGracefulMode

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