#lists

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. ↗

— James Buchan

#admirable #british #features #foreign #novelists

I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories. ↗

— David Byrne

#breaking #categories #i #into #lists

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word. ↗

— Karel Capek

#either #i #important #important thing #moral

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#am #calling #doll #edwardian #features

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#areas #burned #business #business sense #capitalists

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#division #i #idealists #never #realists

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about! ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#also #because #case #country #history

I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#could #how #i #i can #journalists

I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making. ↗

— Ben Stein

#like #lists #making #sound

I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts. ↗

— Charles Van Doren

#carried #facts #figures #hard #i