Mark Haddon Quotes

If you came from Mars and tried to analyse British or American society through novels, you'd think our society was preponderantly full of middle-aged, slightly alcoholic, middle-class, intellectual men, most of whom are divorced from their families and have nothing to do with children.

Mark Haddon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenMenSocietyThinkAmerican

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.

John Boyd Orr

PowerRevengeLustDefeatGloryOut

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

Joel Coen

EducationFatherMotherAgeDriving

I was kind of like the Rhea Perlman of the bar. I was like Carla on 'Cheers.' People were more afraid of me. There was a point where I got a little surly. There were only so many chicken wings I could serve before losing the smile on my face.

Melissa Rauch

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I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.

Skeet Ulrich

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When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

Tommy Shaw

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Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it any degradation to kneel side by side with a Negro in the house of our Heavenly Father.

Roger B. Taney

FatherGodMenThank GodChurch

Fighting on home soil is always a dream come true, and I'd love to unify the title here in Australia.

Robert Whittaker

LoveHomeFightingDreamAustralia

It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

WorkingWhoOtherUseArchitects

I could never take the idea of religion very seriously.

Joyce Carol Oates

ReligionSeriouslyNeverTakeIdea

Dream big!

Josh Ryan Evans

DreamBig

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

Djimon Hounsou

UnderstandingAmericaAfricaFields

I'm all for big production - I love putting on shows.

Derek Hough

LoveProductionBigShowsPutting

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