John Thackara Quotes & Sayings

This is a Spartacan fighting knife. Heard of the Spartacan Scouts? Rough boys. This knife belonged to one of them. He died saving my life. — Henry V. O'Neil

Many men never locate their own truth. They're scared to wager their glistening years finding out. — Joseph McElroy

Our present tax system ... exerts too heavy a drag on growth ... It reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment, and risk-taking ... The present tax load ... distorts economic judgments and channels an undue amount of energy into efforts to avoidtaxliabilities. — John F. Kennedy

All our reporters and editors now work seamlessly in print and online. This integration has transformed the way we work. I believe this is vital to the success and growth of newspapers. — Lionel Barber

You could call what comes next mercy killing, but it's not, really. There's no mercy in any of us. I just want them to stop twitching. There's — Ann Aguirre

It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ. — Dorothy L. Sayers

The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is not so obvious and many who don't get that Nobel Prize are better than people than some of us that do get the Nobel Prize ... I think we should not be interested in prizes, we should be interested in learning about nature. — Jack Steinberger

She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first time, all over again. — Arturo Perez-Reverte

I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role. — Steve Buscemi

Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed. — Vanna Bonta

I don't give interviews on Chanel because it is not useful for the Chanel business. — Alain Wertheimer

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes, like in 'Invisible Monsters,' I get too out of control, and instead of a plot point every chapter, I want a plot point in every sentence. — Chuck Palahniuk