Geoff Dyer Quotes

If you're not religious, like me, how do you explain the transformational power that certain places have? They bring an incredible degree of attention to where you are and the passage of time. You're looking at every flower twitching, wondering if it's just the breeze or some magical pulse.

Geoff Dyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 5, 1958

Topics

FlowerPowerTimeMeLookingYou

If a nation's security is only as strong as its weakest link, then America may be in serious trouble. Hawaii may be our weakest link and could have a serious impact on our nation's immigration policy.

Joe Arpaio

StrongImpactImmigrationAmerica

The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn't know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female... whatever. I'd hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level.

Robert Palmer

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We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say. That is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express.

Ann Coulter

BelieveSayWantMoreOldThey Say

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

Meshell Ndegeocello

YouAheadMy OwnNeedCompanyOwn

What producers did was mostly recording in the studio, so it never changed our sound just that much.

Stephen Malkmus

NeverSoundRecordingJustChanged

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

Rupert Murdoch

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But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

Mike Figgis

StrongFilmmakingDesireNeedGet

The original Beach Boys are Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Alan Jardine.

Mike Love

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'Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

Chris Crutcher

LifeManSchoolHigh SchoolStory

I think another problem people have is they are always searching for that high, and they don't realize they can get that same high with that same person again.

Christina Applegate

PeopleThinkProblemPersonHigh

We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.

Christo

WorkRiverKnowNeverCalifornia

I think that people are innately good.

Bozoma Saint John

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