Doris Lessing Quotes

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

Doris Lessing

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• It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Time
  • Great
  • Year

• Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Important
  • Real
  • Know

• The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Help
  • Small

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
  • You
  • Short
  • Take

• Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Parents

• I'm thrilled I got to work with James Ponsoldt, who is going to make his mark on this industry.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Work
  • Industry
  • Going

• I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Drugs
  • Tone

• I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Pretty
  • Faith
  • Star

• The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Because
  • Guess
  • Fascination

• It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Death
  • Musicians

• Alike and Equal are not the same.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle

• The number of saints in scores, Valiant men, golden their party. Before kings a career of praise, Warriors, no one was before them in demanding. In straits, in expanse, in every need, May they be a city to our body and our soul!

  

  Taliesin
  • Men
  • May
  • Soul

• The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Mind

• Wer nichts wagt, gerwinnt nichts. Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß,Wer nie die kummervollen NächteAuf seinem Bette weinend saß,Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Die

• We need to be thinking about: How do we allow people to ascend the ladder of opportunity, rather than how do we give them everything and keep them dependent.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity

• It was such a relief to program in user mode for a change. Not having to care about the small stuff is wonderful.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Small

• What, after all, was the point of civilization if not the well-being of citizens?

  

  Ann Leckie

• You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Purpose
  • Knows
  • Ifs

• The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

  

  Deborah Tall
  • Powerful
  • Choice
  • Condition

• I think the word 'plus-sized' is so divisive to women.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Women

• Anyone who knows me knows that I have never been shy about how important Ferran Adria has been in my life; he is a friend, a mentor, an inspiration.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Mentor

• Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Good
  • High
  • Energy

• As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.

  

  Doris Lessing