Geoff Dyer Quotes

We still go to nonfiction for content. And if it's well-written, that's a bonus. But we don't often talk about the nonfiction work of art. That's what I'm very interested in.

Geoff Dyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkArtGoTalkContentNonfiction

Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

Jocko Willink

DisciplineFoundationThinkBedOver

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

Steve Carell

SuccessGreatEarlyLevelComplete

Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.

Roger Federer

FatherMeHusbandBigBeing

'Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin. For the most part, the meat we eat consists of muscle tissue taken from farm animals, whether it's a sirloin steak, which is cut from the rear of a cow, or a pork chop, taken from flesh near the spine of a pig.

Michael Specter

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Everyone has a different view on football, but I didn't have a fear that I wouldn't be good enough in England.

Luka Modric

GoodFearFootballViewEnough

I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

Jaron Lanier

GreatPeopleKnowYoungYoung People

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

Christopher Lasch

HeartImprovementProductRelentless

I got into Dio when I was still quite young. I remember seeing the video for 'Rainbow In The Dark' on MTV. That was my first taste of Dio. It wasn't until years later that I realized he had this whole career with Rainbow and Black Sabbath and even going back to Elf. When I saw that video, it instantly became one of my favorite songs.

Corey Taylor

RainbowBlackRememberSeeingCareer

When I was six years old, I fell in love with magic. For Christmas, I got a magic box and a very old book on card manipulation. Somehow, I was more interested in pure manipulation than in all the silly little tricks in the box.

Philippe Petit

LoveBookMagicSillyChristmasBox

When I was working with David Cassidy at the Rio, I made an album of updated versions of some 1970s disco tunes. I had a blast.

Sheena Easton

DiscoWorkingMadeSomeAlbumRio

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

Thomas Fuller

DoctorPatientWhoHisRecoverHeir

We are all socialists now, it seems. John McCain, David Cameron and Gordon Brown attack bankers' irresponsible behaviour and salaries, and call for state intervention in the financial markets. But these calls will not get them elected or re-elected if they are addressed only to the banking sector.

Noreena Hertz

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