Cyril Connolly Quotes

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

Cyril Connolly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 10, 1903 - November 26, 1974

Topics

LifeFearBecomeIrrationalThose

I'm really low maintenance for a girl. I pretty much shower, attempt to fix my hair, throw on some mineral make up, and go.

Johanna Braddy

GirlHairGoMaintenanceFixShower

You had to read what I wrote if you lived in L.A. in 1975 and cared about pop music.

Robert Hilburn

MusicYouLivedPopReadPop Music

It's not as much about the numbers as much as it is that our fans made a mark on this world for us.

Johnny Christ

WorldNumbersMarkFansUsMade

When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow.

Michael Specter

FoodPeopleControlSeedsGrowWant

The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means allowing a great deal of collaboration and listening and having the ability to change your mind.

Luca Guadagnino

ChangeGreatMindCollaborationKind

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

Jonathan Franzen

MyselfInsanityLevelCertain

You've got to be one that, wherever you are, like a flower, you've got to blossom where you're planted. You cannot eliminate darkness. You cannot banish it by cursing darkness. The only way to get rid of darkness is light and to be the light yourself.

Cory Booker

FlowerLightDarknessYourselfYou

Bruce Springsteen's world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better.

Bobbie Ann Mason

WorldBetterSomethingTerribleHe

I'm not an Iran expert.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

ExpertIran

Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.

William Lloyd Garrison

ChangeMenPlaceDangerousMoral

I love to laugh and well, who doesn't?

Selma Blair

LoveLaughWellWhoI Love

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.

Serj Tankian

PrisonSystemSincePercentage

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