Skidelsky John Quotes & Sayings

I touched an Oscar once. Friend of mine has one, for writing. As soon as I touched it, he said, Now you'll never win one. — Rob Corddry

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct. — Bill James

But I'm still too wound up to sleep. So I browse through the audiobooks on the intranet, hoping I'll find the one I'm looking for.
It's there. Order of the Phoenix. I skip to Chapter Twenty-One and forward to a section near the end. Hermione is accusing Ron of having the "emotional range of a teaspoon."
I wonder if Aaron is in the car now, listening to the same thing.
And then I shove that thought into the folder with the others. — Rysa Walker

Body armor is meant to fit snug to the body to stop shrapnel and absorb a bullet's impact. Armor designed for a boxier male frame does not fit properly on the overwhelming majority of females, who have a very different stature and body type than their male counterparts. — Niki Tsongas

I've always thought of nuclear as something that's good for the environment. I worry about my polar bears. — Leslie Dewan

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this. — Vivienne Westwood

I wanted to know people. I wanted to love. But I didn't realize how badly I had been hurt. I didn't realize that my habit of distance had become so unconscious and deep that I didn't know how to be with another person. I could only fix that person in my imagination and turn him this way and that, trying to feel him, until my mind was tired and raw. — Mary Gaitskill

The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of 'normal life.' — Rob Lowe

I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there. — Simon Cowell

When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom. — Ryan Seacrest

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you. — Bill Cosby

I would give anything to taste. To taste just dust. Because now that I'm nearly gone, I'm more here than I ever was. Now that I'm nothing but air, all I want is to breathe it. Now that I'm silent forever, haha, it's all words words words with me. Now that I can't just reach out and touch, it's all I want, is to. — Ali Smith

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. — Ariel Pink

Maybe that is why young people make success. They don't know enough. — Richard P. Feynman