Will Self Quotes

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

Will Self

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeHistoryEyesExperienceTrue

With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard.

Jennifer Gilmore

YouComfortableRaceOpenOutCheck

I love the sport. I love fighting. Fighting is my life.

Anderson Silva

LifeLoveFightingMy LifeI Love

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they're interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it's why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

Angelina Jolie

ChildrenSimplePeopleThinkWhy

I had great success with Ivan Lendl. Was he a perfect coach? No. Was he a very good coach? Yeah. He had some very strong qualities and some things that weren't so good.

Andy Murray

SuccessGoodGreatStrongPerfect

My style is too versatile to be compared to anybody.

Smokepurpp

StyleAnybodyVersatileTooCompared

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

Robert Conklin

PeopleWantLivingThingsMustGet

The difference with football is you're out on the pitch, you feel as though you can do something about it, or score a goal. But when that horse goes down to post as an owner you have no involvement whatsoever. It's a lonely old place in the stand. It's just down to man and beast.

Michael Owen

FootballManStandLonelyHorseYou

Iran did not talk to the United States for 35 years. And now we are talking. And I believe these talks are useful. But they haven't produced the intended results. We have not seen an end to the hostility that has been exhibited in the United States against Iran. And I believe it is important that we see some of that.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

BelieveEndTalkingResultsTalk

I love a hotel that offers Wi-Fi Internet access, especially if it's free. But I never access sensitive information, like my bank account or an online shopping site that stores my credit card information, on a public Wi-Fi connection.

Jean Chatzky

LoveShoppingFreeHotelCredit

I'm fascinated by real-time behavior.

Christopher Guest

BehaviorFascinated

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

Bow Wow

MusicMeDoingCreditActingMovies

Namor has shades of grey but always ends up doing the right thing. I've played characters with an edge - played villains if not super villains - and he's an anti-hero.

Brian Tee

Doing The Right ThingDoingEdgeGrey

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