Doris Lessing Quotes

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

Doris Lessing

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• To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Experience
  • Together
  • Future

• All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • World
  • History
  • Christian

• The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Enough
  • Said
  • Lord

• I think that governments are going to get disrupted by the blockchain. I think in the same way that the Internet forced everyone to evolve, the Blockchain is going to change the game again.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Game
  • Change
  • Same

• I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Creative
  • Process
  • Cooking

• For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Sometimes
  • I Can
  • Journalist

• I played in football games where you walk off the field and the scoreboard didn't end up the way you wanted. But you knew that you really did give it all. And the other team was too strong.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Team

• Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Society
  • Teenagers

• Actors get to go to these amazing worlds. In 'Terminator,' I was a cyborg with feelings; in 'Avatar,' I lived for 15 months on a fantastical planet, and in 'Clash of the Titans,' I get to fight a scorpion the size of a dump truck. It's a bizarre job, but you explore yourself.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Job
  • Amazing
  • Fight

• I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Learn
  • Write
  • Newspaper

• I'm not one for going out on the town on Friday night, as I've never been a big drinker, so I like getting the rubbish jobs out of the way so we can enjoy our free time.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Night
  • Free

• When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.

  

  Sam Farr
  • Small
  • Attention
  • California

• I want to work on interesting parts that I can believe in.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Interesting

• I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which is a huge deal in America - singing the National Anthem.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • America
  • Game

• Who likes the little little duckies in the pond? I do, I do, I do, a-chicka quack quack.

  

  Ze Frank

• Panurge auoyt la pulee en l'oreille.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers

• The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

  

  Eduardo Galeano
  • Winning

• Today's extension of the Edwards prohibition is the latest stage of prophylaxis built upon prophylaxis, producing a veritable fairyland castle of imagined constitutional restriction upon law enforcement.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Today
  • Law

• I always put myself in the audience's place and see if, as a viewer, I would want to see the film. If yes, then I want to know who's directing it, what my character is, and if it's impactful. If all these points fall in place, I'll do the film. If not, then I won't think twice before saying no.

  

  Neil Nitin Mukesh
  • Character
  • Fall

• We live too long for one marriage.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Long
  • Live
  • Marriage

• Ministry of Disturbance, a regulated source of annoyance; a destroyer of routine; an underminer of complacency.

  

  C. D. Darlington
  • Complacency

• There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

  

  Doris Lessing