Geoff Dyer Quotes

Inevitably, most readers come to John Cheever's 'Journals' via his fiction. Whatever value they might have in their own right, their viability as a publishing proposition was conditional on the interest of the large readership of his novels and stories.

Geoff Dyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ValueRightWhateverFictionOwn

History shows that you can't - you can't have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It's just the reality.

Jim Webb

HistoryRealityYouSecurityWithout

The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It sometimes causes us difficulties at home and abroad. It is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us. But the American people are entitled to it, nonetheless.

John McCain

HomeTruthPeopleTruth IsHurt

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

Andy Murray

YouGoBelievingBeatPlayersMatch

I'm the most successful bad player ever.

Andy Roddick

BadSuccessfulPlayerMostEver

It's funny. You succeed, but now where are you gonna go from there? I've got to keep proving that I can laugh or cry more real each time.

Jeff Bridges

FunnyTimeSucceedLaughYouI Can

The Bible tells me that every life is holy; the Bible tells me that every life is loved; the Bible tells me that every life is called to be all that it can be.

John Shelby Spong

LifeMeBibleLovedHolyEvery

By playing on people's desire to belong to groups, Facebook creates a new, inclusive society. After all, Facebook is not like Harvard College. Anyone with access to the Internet can sign up.

Amity Shlaes

PeopleCollegeSocietyInternetNew

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

Trey Parker

BestIdeasYouUpComeMakes

I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter.

Tom Waits

MyselfPoetryKindWouldReporter

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

Rupert Sheldrake

NatureThinkMoreEvolveLawsLike

Obama is from this group that resents the private sector, resents the capitalistic means of production.

Rush Limbaugh

GroupProductionMeansPrivateObama

I've learned some quick tricks about how to fix my hair so I can dash somewhere unexpected and still be O.K. when someone stops me to take a picture.

Mikaela Shiffrin

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