A. S. Byatt Quotes
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.A. S. Byatt
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde -
We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
Randee Heller -
When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
Kajol -
I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
Baltasar Kormakur
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I like being unconventional.
Florence Griffith Joyner -
I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp -
Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
Sam Graves -
The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
Imran Khan -
I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
Zac Posen
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Saint Augustine -
The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
Earl Butz -
Art is born of humiliation.
W. H. Auden -
We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and you never take it personally; everybody just has a ball laughing at him.
Vicki Lawrence -
We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
Umberto Eco -
I don't want to be a celebrity.
Jerry Springer
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Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.
Donna Leon -
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
E. M. Forster -
When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.
Sean O'Casey -
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
A. S. Byatt