David Knopfler Quotes

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

David Knopfler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 27, 1952

Topics

CollegeGoEscapeGravityPunishment

I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

Joe Abercrombie

PeopleReadingSurprisePlanYou

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.

Melvyn Bragg

ImaginationThoughtThings Happen

I've always been petrified of working for a boss who I didn't like but who I was in fear of, because I wanted my salary.

Simon Cowell

FearBossSalaryAlwaysWorkingWho

I'm good at the broad strokes but hopeless at the details.

Trudie Styler

GoodDetailsHopelessStrokesBroad

I'm art. You're art. We are God's greatest works, simple as that.

Tracy Morgan

GodArtSimpleYouGreatestWorks

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.

Tony Campolo

VotingPowerfulThreeBecomeOver

I am a guy's guy. I'm all boy.

Tom Sizemore

I AmBoyGuyAm

I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.

Roberta Williams

I AmGameProudCareDevelopment

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.

Rowan Williams

FaithGreatThinkChristianInterest

In whatever guise - our own daily nightmares of war, intolerance, inhumanity or the struggles of an Assistant Pig-Keeper against the Lord of Death - the problems are agonizingly familiar. And an openness to compassion, love, and mercy is as essential to us here and now as it is to any inhabitant of an imaginary kingdom.

Lloyd Alexander

LoveDailyCompassionDeathWarNow

My experience is that there's absolutely a correlation between the enthusiasm within an animation studio for a given character and the enthusiasm the audience feels when seeing the movie.

Chris Meledandri

CharacterExperienceEnthusiasm

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

Arthur Smith

Come And GoGoExpressionComeLike

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