Will Self Quotes

There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.

Will Self

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 26, 1961

Topics

ProgressCreativePowerfulYoung

I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am.

Jim Beaver

I AmPeopleMeEgoWriteTell

Riding a bicycle is the summit of human endeavour - an almost neutral environmental effect coupled with the ability to travel substantial distances without disturbing anybody. The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy.

Jeremy Corbyn

MarriageTechnologyBikeTravel

Capitalism does millions of things better than the alternatives. It balances supply and demand in an elegant way that central planning has never come close to.

Jeremy Grantham

CapitalismPlanningBetterWayNever

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

Jelly Roll Morton

YouFeelingsUpPianoGet

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

John Drinkwater

WorkPoetryEnergyLongDramaWhole

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.

Jeffrey Hunter

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It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.

Michael Chang

LightCultureTryingYouSometimes

Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

Steven Wright

LifeLookingThinkStopSeeOut

I won some genetic lottery. I always happened to be strangely good at mathematics in my head. I just popped out weird.

Rodney Brooks

GoodMathematicsWeirdLotteryHead

As a songwriter, I go into the studio, and I just try to write a great song.

Luis Fonsi

GreatSongGoTryWriteJust

You're living your life the entire time in both worlds - it's not like they say, 'Action' and you're like, 'Here we go, we're in this thing,' because that's where bad acting comes from.

Lucas Hedges

LifeTimeActionYouBadActing

We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development - and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world.

Louis Bacon

FutureLosingWorldGrowWorryNow

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