So Little Done Theodore Dalrymple Quotes

#1. You are too kind, and I am unused to it. For your own sake, do not stroke my misery. It knows not how to respond, but with a vicious bite.

Anne Fortier

#2. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.

Jack Crawford

#3. I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

Larry McMurtry

#4. Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.

General Iroh

#5. And unless one can observe the guilt and regret of the mourners, surely there is nothing satisfactory about being dead?

Truman Capote

#6. A third of our food comes from pollinating plants.

Louie Schwartzberg

#7. I've been fortunate enough to be headstrong, to be full of self-belief, and those things have never wavered for me.

Tim Howard

#8. My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

Dante Hall

#9. If I go back to the beginning, I could start it over again. I could go line by line; try and find a shorter way. I could try to make it ... better.

David Auburn

#10. Between the two desks was one of those old Chinese screens, but even this bore Jenna's stamp, as the wood had been painted
you guessed it: pink.

Rachel Hawkins

#11. I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.

Julian Barnes

#12. Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

Haruki Murakami

#13. I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

Salman Rushdie

#14. I blame my parents. It's their fault for raising me with a little guilt-demon living in my stomach. I can't ever just do something without having to worry about whether it's right. Now, don't worry, I can usually overcome it.

Kevin Emerson

#15. If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

Paul Rand