Doris Lessing Quotes
When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.
Doris Lessing
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
Natalie Zea
Let a hundred flowers bloom.
Mao Zedong
Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
Idris Elba
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
Salman Rushdie
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
Eden Phillpotts
The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
Walter Cronkite
I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
Ze Frank
My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
Dalai Lama
I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
Rae Carson
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
Harold Coffin
As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
Fat Joe
'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
Feist
It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
Tammy Baldwin
To be crazy is not necessarily to writhe in snake pits or converse with imaginary gods. It can sometimes be not knowing what to do in the morning.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.
Oriana Fallaci
After a vast research program, which depended very heavily upon the use of a number of highspeed computers, I am pleased to offer you the result: 'Space is that in which everything else is.' In other words, 'Space is the hole that we are in.'
James Van Allen
New York Newsday said I was stealing from the black man, and I was failing at it whereas Michael Bolton was succeeding. So fuck 'em.
Jeff Buckley
When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.
Doris Lessing
