Felix Dennis Quotes

I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.

Felix Dennis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: publisher
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 27, 1947 - June 22, 2014

Topics

DayPastMindThinkTalkingYou

I'm a young person; sometimes I'm political, sometimes I'm not.

Jessica Williams

PoliticalPersonYoungSometimes

Low lights signal to our senses that the workday may be over and it's time for sleep, making it hard for an audience to pay careful attention. When we stand behind a big wooden podium, it can feel as if there's a shield between us and the audience.

John P. Kotter

TimeSleepStandFeelAttentionPay

And, of course, some SF is set close enough to here and now that Anglo and European do apply. Since many of the writers come from those backgrounds, so does much of the fiction.

Stanley Schmidt

EnoughNowFictionHereComeApply

We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.

Sue Townsend

LibraryYouHouseDaysOwnWould

Whenever I finish a movie, I usually go through a period where I think I'll never have another idea. And then, somehow, you get another idea.

Sofia Coppola

ThinkYouGoNeverFinishThrough

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

Robin Yount

DreamsWorldTeammatesTrueOut

To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.

Rose Kennedy

FatherMindWorldMagicAirLike

Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

VisionGreatImaginationMindsFires

A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.

Derek Walcott

GreatTimeExperienceCityThink

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

Bob Greene

GoodChanceEnoughYouLookFind

Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot of people take for granted that they're a creative person, but I know from experience, feeling it in myself, it is a magic; it is an energy. And it can't be taken for granted.

Ava DuVernay

MyselfExperienceCreativityCreative

I always wanted to be part of a movie that creates a different world.

Ansel Elgort

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