FastSaying

In my mid-adolescence, my friend Terry Martin and I became obsessed with William F. Buckley. This makes more sense when you realize that we were living in Bible Belt farming country miles from civilization. Buckley seemed impossibly exotic.


Malcolm Gladwell

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

If I were to win the Nobel Prize in Literature - which I think it's fairly safe to say is not go...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY I'm a big Jeff Buckley fan. But he only had one album and then he died. So I started with Jeff Buckl...
JACE SEAVERS I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dati...
NATASHA LEGGERO I love James Taylor, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith and Nine Inch Nails.
NAT WOLFF Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I...
LENA HORNE Joe Sosnowski made another quote "I no longer work for Buckley Companies, I work for Rockford Christ...
BRIAN LEGGERO Joe Sosnowski made another quote "I no longer work for Buckley Companies, I work for Rockford Christ...
BRIAN JENKINS LEGGERO The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by ...
MIKE PENCE I entered Yale in the fall of 1951, and about November of that year, Bill Buckley published 'God...
M. STANTON EVANS Buckley followed the three of them into the kitchen and asked, as he had at least once a day, “Whe...
ALICE SEBOLD I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody,...
CARLOS SANTANA Turn your head away from the screen, my friend. It will tell you nothing more.
JEFF BUCKLEY I told her that Jeff Buckley brings a tear to my eye. By coincidence Jackie was a Buckley fan had be...
GARY SUFFIR Eventually, the more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized th...
CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brothe...
AL JARDINE In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great v...
PATTI SMITH When (Holmes) and Melvin Buckley go 2-for-21, and as well as Solomon Jones played offensively, when ...
ROBERT MCCULLUM Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend...
JANE SMILEY There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.
JEFF BUCKLEY When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my lif...
ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with ma...
QUESTLOVE My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watch...
JOSH GAD My father served 26 years in the Air Force as a pilot and a pioneer in our missile programs. I learn...
JIM WEBB You really are exotic, for boys in my country, they do not have such pectorals. I like yours.
STEVEN L. SHEPPARD When my father died, I had millions of people supporting me in a very, very difficult time. I have r...
JUSTIN TRUDEAU What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became...
JAMAICA KINCAID I started training with school friends and, one by one, they all dropped out. When we became teenage...
JESSICA ENNIS-HILL My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s...
KAREN BENDER Each day was a fight, but I gained strength from each battle; my mind became sharpened with each rej...
CHARLENA JACKSON When I was around 13 years old, I started playing in bands and became obsessed with Blink-182 and Ne...
CASSADEE POPE When I began my political career, I identified with Malcolm X.
AYMAN ODEH When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther...
JONATHAN KOZOL I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - fro...
GARY LINEKER My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschw...
JULIE SALAMON In my country, we don't mix sweet stuff and salty stuff in food. Here you could put honey on chicken...
MANNAA MANNAA I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.
ANGELA L. WOZNIAK At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my book...
JONATHAN CARROLL Nivea Firming Body Lotion. When it goes on sale, I buy it in bulk. I am obsessed with it and how it ...
MEGHAN MARKLE We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have ...
SHEREEN EL FEKI He has two rings. He expects a lot out of me, and I know coach (Billy) Buckley expects me to perform...
TRENT FREEMAN Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your ...
DAN PEARCE I look so fondly back on that time in my life when you first got an agent and you were in your mid-t...
KATIE LOWES I was honored to have served in the Army for my country. I was at Anzio during WWII, and it makes yo...
JAMES ARNESS Looking back on his adolescence from the vantage point of his mid-eighties, George H.W. Bush candidl...
H.W. BRANDS In the process of helping others, I helped myself. In acting out of my own brokeness I became whole ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn f...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER I led by example before. This year, I became more vocal. My teammates were my friends and they knew ...
DAN GERIOT When I moved out here to California, I became obsessed with geology. It's impossible not to be i...
JAMAICA KINCAID Drumming completely eclipsed my life from age 13, when I started drum lessons. Everything disappeare...
NEIL PEART I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy i...
HARRY HOUDINI I started farming in 1948 and that was the first year I had my own crop. I've been retired, supposed...
ALTON ADAMS If you are not more alive when in love then you my friend are in love with the wrong one.
NIKKI ROWE My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.
SYDNEY SMITH My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon
SYDNEY SMITH My whole life, my mother told me I would have SAG to fall back on. When I see a woman in her mid-40s...
MELISSA GILBERT When you have more planes in the country, it makes a great deal of sense to have a local pilot-train...
KAPIL KAUL At this stage in my life, I've finally come to realize that I've learned more from my children than ...
CJ HECK When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much ...
CANDIS CAYNE When I was living in the Dominican Republic, the local kids became a part of my family.
MAIKA MONROE From the time I was a small boy, I remember working in the fields with my grandfather and father. We...
SCOTT PRUETT when we were strangers, I liked you from afar
when we were lovers, I loved you with all my hear...
NEIL YOUNG When I was 20, I was living in the Alps, snowboarding and studying political science. I blew out my ...
CARY FUKUNAGA I grew up Southern Baptist. In the Bible Belt.
HARRY DEAN STANTON My view is the previous months were the aberrant month, and June makes more sense.
ROBERT BRUSCA My first break was in my home country with some pop songs that became hits, writing for French singe...
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
ODED FEHR My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My ...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE f you don't realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow. When you realize where you come...
LAO TZU I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life ...
DHANI JONES I get lots of emails from Italians who love our product. We get requests from churches in the Bible ...
ALAN ADLER William Shatner is living proof that if you are talented and nice, you can work in this industry for...
LISA LAMPANELLI Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the min...
BAYARD RUSTIN I respect Terry because he was my manager and I enjoyed working with him. I know that the comments w...
JAMES MCFADDEN You can't make a living on the farming anymore. There's more money in the furniture shops.
ELI MILLER This makes me very proud for my country but more than that I am myself proud. In Kenya my first son ...
BENJAMIN LIMO Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us w...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn fiel...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn fiel...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER The Oscar buzz when I was nominated was totally overwhelming. I think I can cope with anything now t...
JACKI WEAVER Life has a complex plan that involves you and me.
While we dream, work and organize, life makes...
JAIME BUCKLEY I think that people in the Bible Belt are far less monolithically religious than many people imagine...
RICHARD DAWKINS I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a Br...
RAQUEL WELCH I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I ha...
LEE SMITH I had cooperated. I could not have refused. I was smitten with her, half in love but also afraid, be...
PAUL THEROUX I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to...
IO TILLETT WRIGHT I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I ...
CHRISTINA RICCI What makes most people comfortable is some sort of sense of nostalgia. I grew up in a small town, an...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. How...
TOM GLAZER When I became the manager of the New York Yankees, it was an opportunity to realize my lifelong drea...
JOE TORRE How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a ...
PAUL SWEENEY My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the undergr...
NATE POWELL I think this championship means a great deal to Kim, ... I came in relatively inexperienced with jus...
DAN WHELDON At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adr...
EDDIE VEDDER I actually prefer female voices to listen to, mostly, but among the male singers whose voices I like...
GREGORY MAGUIRE I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He ins...
FAITH HILL When I first arrived in Houston, I was fascinated with the elaborate styles of cowboy boots and thou...
SHAHZIA SIKANDER You don't know that and I don't know that!
MICHELE COSTELLO The whiskey’s power released his repressed memories so fast that his words raced to keep up with t...
PASCAL MARCO

More Malcolm Gladwell

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.
MALCOLM GLADWELL I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little...
MALCOLM GLADWELL The underdog winning is the romantic position.
MALCOLM GLADWELL Many people with dyslexia truly suffer, and their lives are worse off for having had that disability...
MALCOLM GLADWELL As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
MALCOLM GLADWELL The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he...
MALCOLM GLADWELL The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petul...
MALCOLM GLADWELL I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse....
MALCOLM GLADWELL In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physi...
MALCOLM GLADWELL What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't jud...
MALCOLM GLADWELL You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly peo...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technol...
MALCOLM GLADWELL It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.
MALCOLM GLADWELL If you go to an elite school where the other students in your class are all really brilliant, you ru...
MALCOLM GLADWELL We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leader...
MALCOLM GLADWELL That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Achievement is talent plus preparation
MALCOLM GLADWELL We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
MALCOLM GLADWELL There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
MALCOLM GLADWELL A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, bec...
MALCOLM GLADWELL There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of i...
MALCOLM GLADWELL I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens door...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all t...
MALCOLM GLADWELL We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't...
MALCOLM GLADWELL The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
MALCOLM GLADWELL ..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And t...
MALCOLM GLADWELL The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
MALCOLM GLADWELL The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a ben...
MALCOLM GLADWELL I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive....
MALCOLM GLADWELL Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
MALCOLM GLADWELL Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize th...
MALCOLM GLADWELL In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten t...
MALCOLM GLADWELL People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
MALCOLM GLADWELL You walk into the class in second grade. You can't read. What are you going to do if you're ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious...
MALCOLM GLADWELL You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposu...
MALCOLM GLADWELL We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations...
MALCOLM GLADWELL The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emoti...
MALCOLM GLADWELL It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research
MALCOLM GLADWELL It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinkin...
MALCOLM GLADWELL It would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and comes ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - bec...
MALCOLM GLADWELL There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is ver...
MALCOLM GLADWELL I hope I have encouraged people in business to expand the way they make sense of human behavior.
MALCOLM GLADWELL It was not the privileged and the fortunate who took in the Jews in France. It was the marginal and ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victor...
MALCOLM GLADWELL We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real wor...
MALCOLM GLADWELL So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innov...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.
MALCOLM GLADWELL The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in t...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fai...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.
MALCOLM GLADWELL The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is...
MALCOLM GLADWELL When we make a split-second decision,” Payne says, “we are really vulnerable to being guided by ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily...
MALCOLM GLADWELL A critic looking at these tightly focused, targeted interventions might dismiss them as Band-Aid sol...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profound...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.
MALCOLM GLADWELL In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to d...
MALCOLM GLADWELL A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a han...
MALCOLM GLADWELL We live in a world that assumes that the quality of a decision is directly related to the time and e...
MALCOLM GLADWELL The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But tha...
MALCOLM GLADWELL That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice t...
MALCOLM GLADWELL the single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people...
MALCOLM GLADWELL PEOPLE are experience rich and theory poor. People who are busy doing things ? as opposed to people ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how com...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis a...
MALCOLM GLADWELL It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mor...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
MALCOLM GLADWELL Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most pe...
MALCOLM GLADWELL I suspect people who are indecisive are people who are far too enamored of analysis in all settings ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL What do we tell our children? ... Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't jud...
MALCOLM GLADWELL A country that displays an almost ruthless commitment to efficiency and performance in every aspect ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL [Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL ...legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority hav...
MALCOLM GLADWELL In Hamburg we played for 8 hours a day! John Lennon, regarding experience in honing talents
MALCOLM GLADWELL Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation...
MALCOLM GLADWELL We are all of us not merely liable to fear, we are also prone to be afraid of being afraid, and the ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL S.J.’s second wife, Eloise, decided to have him killed, so she hired two hit men — one of whom, ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of t...
MALCOLM GLADWELL In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Both Jim and I are interested in the limits of conventional decision-making. The idea that an expert...
MALCOLM GLADWELL The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically ga...
MALCOLM GLADWELL The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred t...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best in...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and op...
MALCOLM GLADWELL if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid co...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone bre...
MALCOLM GLADWELL I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
MALCOLM GLADWELL Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors...
MALCOLM GLADWELL In the six degrees of separation, not all degrees are equal.
MALCOLM GLADWELL Six degrees of separation doesn't mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. I...
MALCOLM GLADWELL I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he c...
MALCOLM GLADWELL The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism ca...
MALCOLM GLADWELL It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Anyone who has ever scanned the bookshelves of a new girlfriend or boyfriend- or peeked inside his o...
MALCOLM GLADWELL We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too...
MALCOLM GLADWELL It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special...
MALCOLM GLADWELL The answer is that we are not helpless in the face of our first impressions. They may bubble up from...
MALCOLM GLADWELL If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a com...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily ide...
MALCOLM GLADWELL For almost a generation, psychologists around the world have been engaged in a spirited debate over ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.
MALCOLM GLADWELL Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside o...
MALCOLM GLADWELL When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.
MALCOLM GLADWELL It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether o...
MALCOLM GLADWELL We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Emotion is contagious.
MALCOLM GLADWELL Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind o...
MALCOLM GLADWELL ...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the...
MALCOLM GLADWELL It made me realize that I'd changed what I thought was a trivial aspect of who I was but it profound...
MALCOLM GLADWELL It's the boiling point. It's the moment when the line starts to shoot straight upwards.
MALCOLM GLADWELL The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two ...
MALCOLM GLADWELL Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!
MALCOLM GLADWELL In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
MALCOLM X I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.
MALCOLM MCLAREN America preaches integration and practices segregation.
MALCOLM X You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by th...
MALCOLM X Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divor...
MALCOLM TURNBULL It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more ...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.
MALCOLM GETS Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to...
MALCOLM TURNBULL I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I...
MALCOLM TURNBULL The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pret...
MALCOLM TURNBULL Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if the...
MALCOLM TURNBULL Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry ab...
MALCOLM TURNBULL There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press re...
MALCOLM TURNBULL If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce...
MALCOLM TURNBULL China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
MALCOLM TURNBULL The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that&#...
MALCOLM TURNBULL I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we nee...
MALCOLM TURNBULL I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make su...
MALCOLM TURNBULL I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of ...
MALCOLM TURNBULL It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the hones...
MALCOLM TURNBULL It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It h...
MALCOLM TURNBULL The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matte...
MALCOLM TURNBULL When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it&#...
MALCOLM TURNBULL In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once ...
MALCOLM TURNBULL My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adop...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then th...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people co...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is ...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to g...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or c...
MALCOLM MCLAREN I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.
MALCOLM MCLAREN I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that yo...
MALCOLM MCLAREN Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've ju...
MALCOLM MCLAREN I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some...
MALCOLM MCLAREN The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
MALCOLM MCLAREN Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
MALCOLM MCLAREN I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN Don't kill the golden goose.
MALCOLM MCLAREN Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn righ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may ch...
MALCOLM MCLAREN I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped ...
MALCOLM MCLAREN I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I love doing every role I do!
MALCOLM MCDOWELL You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limi...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL There are no great scripts - just great films.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there'...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just on...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, th...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherw...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconi...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are jus...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try ...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous inte...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
MALCOLM MCDOWELL