Quotes About Quotes

I never turn down requests for interviews. I'm just rarely asked.

The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.999 percent of them are made by people who are still alive.

Jah knows my peeve about Goodreads quotes is that it's not mandatory to site the literary source.

And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.

It's a problem sometimes when you speak to journalists. They quote you, and then they read what they wrote, and then they even explain it. It's dangerous.

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

Sometimes quotes you find on the internet are fake.

When it works, what you get is not a collection of references, quotes, allusions, and cribs but a whole, seamless thing, both familiar and new: a record of the consciousness that was busy falling in love with those moments in the first place.

For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.'

I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene?

'Harry Brown' is good - and I love 'The Italian Job.'

I'll tell you who I really like - the lawyer Imran Khan. I did my dissertation on stop-and-search powers, and I put in loads of quotes from him. Years later, when I was selling insurance over in Harley Street, he rang up and asked for insurance. He told me his name, and I asked him if he was the lawyer, and he said yes.

It's difficult to be the spokesperson for something that internally is falling apart. That's a tremendous amount of pressure to put on one person, to be the guy who gives all the quotes, all the interviews.

In 'Plutarch,' her voice begins to come out; there are actual 2,000-year-old quotes from Cleopatra, and they are sly and saucy.

Some actors actually think about what they're going to talk about during the interview - they read up and meditate and plan quotes and get all inspired. It's very smart, but it's so planned. I never think to do that.

No me gustan los intelectuales hombres de las letras con sus conversaciones sobrecargadas de citas.

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

The Elements of Programming Style (with P. J. Plauger)

I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.

As for actors, I'm hugely in awe of Cate Blanchett - and Meryl Streep, obviously.

Because yeah, females could be vanity hounds and most preferred their dates to have hair. Black, blond, red, it didn't matter, as long as the locks were thick and lustrous. And here was a news flash for little Miss Giggles: when he allowed his to grow, it was dark brown, nearly jet, with hints of gold and worthy of a fucking lion. Not that he was feeling defensive or anything.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.