Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Bryce Courtenay Quotes

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway.

Bryce Courtenay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: south african
Birth: August 14, 1933 - November 22, 2012

Topics

Me Point Being Sense Just Writer

I've been very active in Missouri.

Active Missouri Been Very

In its first 30 years of existence, up to the mid 1970s, the practical applications of game theory were very limited, probably as a result of excessive preoccupation by game theorists with cooperative solution concepts.

Game Solution Result First Existence

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.

You Now Places Inside See Out

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Home Place Go Safe Where Us

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

Think Feel Anxiety Nation Sense

I can't prove it, but I can say it.

Stephen Colbert

I Can Say Prove

It takes more discipline than you might imagine to think, even for thirty seconds, in the noisy, confusing, high-pressure atmosphere of a film set. But a few seconds' thought can often prevent a serious mistake being made about something that looks good at first glance.

Stanley Kubrick

Good Discipline Mistake Think You

Every year, I speak to our new associates and give them this advice, although in my own words. 'This isn't like school,' I tell them, 'where you want to get your hand in the air and give an answer quickly. The only grade here is 100. Deadlines are important, but at Blackstone you can always get help in meeting them.'

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Words School Speak Advice Help Year

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

Robert Dale Owen

To me, acting is all about hard work and talent. Once you get your first wrinkle, if you are a female actress, nobody will care about what you look like - it's all about what you can do.

Dominik Garcia-Lorido

Work Hard Work Talent Me Care Look

I love Manchester. I love Manchester United. But I would really struggle to be creative there. I feel a bit lost, over-familiar maybe. Maybe too stuck in my own web of history.

Love History Struggle Creative Feel

At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.

Work Change Time Financial Silly

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Bryce Courtenay