Mark Haddon Quotes

If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.

Mark Haddon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StartBookPictureFeelBedGoing

I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed.

Jessica Lynch

WarThinkWorthSoldiersOurHaving

Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.

Johann Georg Hamann

GodEyesBeginningHandsLivingSaw

Prospering just doesn't have to do with money.

Joel Osteen

SuccessMoneyJustProspering

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

Jello Biafra

YouCreateProhibitionUnderground

It used to be CNN and other television outlets were founded on this idea of a news wheel. You give us 22 minutes, and we'll give you the world. But that's not the way people consume news and information any more.

Jeff Zucker

PeopleWorldYouInformationWheel

Foot-binding is said to have been inspired by a tenth-century court dancer named Yao Niang who bound her feet into the shape of a new moon. She entranced Emperor Li Yu by dancing on her toes inside a six-foot golden lotus festooned with ribbons and precious stones.

Amanda Foreman

MoonFeetNewSaidGoldenShe

When people accuse me of being really posh, I think, 'Hang on a minute - no, I'm not!'

Rob James-Collier

PeopleMeThinkHangBeingMinute

When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.

Luis Figo

ChangeDecisionLanguageLearnNew

I'm straight. I. Love. Men. I love men.

Janina Gavankar

LoveMenStraightI Love

I do like my breasts. They're great, so much fun. You can do what you like with them.

Denise Van Outen

GreatFunYouBreastsLikeMuch

The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I remember going into our backyard with my parents and figuring out how to assemble, and staring at the night sky, just for hours, with both of my parents.

Chelsea Clinton

SkyParentsNightSmallPresentOut

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

Brenda Blethyn

SuccessPeopleThinkFameConfuse

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