"there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick,……" — Jon McGregor
"there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home."
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21 Quotes by Jon McGregor
Jon McGregor has 21 quotes on this site.
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If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?
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Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.
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Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.
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I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought…
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It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.
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Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.
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It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of…
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People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on…
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You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is…
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If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a…
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I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much…
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He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes…
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We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers
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South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition…
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Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know…
— Rosa Luxemburg
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Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't…
— Unknown Author
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What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it…
— Kenneth Turan
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I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.
— David Neeleman
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There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and…
— Winston Churchill
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But ice-crunching and loud gum-chewing, together with drumming on tables, and whistling the same tune 70 times in succession, because…
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Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally…
— Walt Whitman
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a…
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