Humphrey Carpenter Quotes

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

Humphrey Carpenter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 29, 1946 - November 4, 2005

Topics

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Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

Jerzy Kosinski

OpportunityTimeWalkTravelMeSee

Unless you write your own movies... you can't really say what you want to say.

Jennifer Coolidge

YouSayWantMoviesWriteOwn

It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses.

Jennifer Wyatt

AttentionMassesGetTakesReally

I hope to continue acquiring companies, not so much for the accumulation of wealth but because it's what I do well, and you always like to do what you do well.

Michael Heisley

HopeYouWealthAlwaysBecauseWell

I made my money in Iscar. I spend my money on the industrial parks.

Stef Wertheimer

MoneyIndustrialMadeParksSpend

Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

Robert Winston

ScienceTimePastChildThinkHuman

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

Russell Baker

LaughterComedyTelevisionSituation

I was thinking recently about the popularity of TV shows about people shopping for houses. I wonder if part of their appeal is the chance to vicariously imagine our lives playing out in a variety of spaces. We have a sense that the shape and style of our dwellings affects the shapes of the lives that unfold within them.

Mary Szybist

StylePeopleShoppingChanceWonder

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

Dennis Quaid

BaseballCareerLittleLittle League

I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative.

Anthony Hopkins

PeopleNegativeWhoLike

When I have a girlfriend, I feel caged in, I don't know why.

Scott Baio

FeelKnowWhyGirlfriendI Feel

What I've said about consent orders and consent decrees is that we shouldn't regulate through litigation.

Scott Pruitt

SaidThroughConsentOrdersRegulate

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