- Child
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Believe Quotes
On conviction, faith and holding a belief through doubt.
The quotes gathered here move between technical foresight, early confidence in where computing was headed, and deeply personal conviction about politics, work and society's assumptions. For more on faith, see our Faith quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
They'll say, 'Oh, he's sexy,' but women still go for guys who are 6ft 2 ins. I don't believe any of it for a minute.
- Design
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.
- New
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't think too much about people who didn't believe in me. It hasn't really affected me.
- Perspective
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Jamaica but was educated by, and now serve, prestigious First World institutions, so I believe that I have a unique, dual perspective. To sidestep any biases I might have, I use the objective lens of the stock market to discover which policies actually delivered prosperity to emerging markets.
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.
- Fair Game
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.
- Past
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.
- Doctor
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, I just tend to believe in things when I'm writing them. For instance, when I was writing 'Doctor Dee,' I believed in magic. And when I wrote 'Hawksmoor' I believed in psychic geography. But as soon as I type the last full stop, I'm back to being a complete blank again.
- Old
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020