Geoff Dyer Quotes

Despite what Wordsworth says about thoughts that 'lie too deep for tears', I think tears are a pretty reliable indication of being in the grips of a profound experience.

Geoff Dyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExperienceLieThoughtsTearsThink

I want my kids to grow up and enjoy their childhood and be carefree. I never really got a chance to be a kid.

Jim Morris

ChildhoodChanceGrowEnjoyWantUp

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally.

Jim Balsillie

AmericaNoiseBuyingCustomersStill

When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.

Jessica Tandy

HopeDinnerLateKnowStreetLying

History will record not only the transformational changes President Obama brought about, but also that in 2008, he was elected president with 69 million votes - the largest popular vote for any one person in the history of this country, based on a campaign of hope and inspiration.

Jeh Johnson

HopeHistoryCountryPersonVote

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

America Ferrera

PassionI AmTryingGuidedAm

Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.

Stephen Kinzer

RevolutionSoonConstitutional

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Sophocles

WisdomWealthAny

I think management is about just that - managing people via man-to-man skills.

Stuart Pearce

PeopleManagementThinkSkillsJust

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

Simon Schama

ArtWritingModernMuchSingularity

We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.

Travis Kalanick

TruthEvilDarkDangerousOutSide

I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.

Tony Dungy

GoodPeopleGood ThingsPerception

The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.

Tom Stoppard

GoodLeaderFutureLieGeneration

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