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

• I'm having a really hard time with this retirement thing and not having wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Wrestling
  • Retirement

• 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

• I'm part Filipino, part Japanese, part Chinese, part Malaysian, and part Spanish, and all those people, they love their karaoke. So whenever my family got together, we'd all karaoke.

  

  Manika
  • People
  • Family
  • Together

• For instance, 'The Sixth Sense' had mediocre to bad reviews. Slowly, the audience pushed it and it received critical attention.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Bad
  • Attention
  • Audience

• 'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.

  

  Poe Ballantine

• Glenn Slater is my lyricist who, of the new young lyricists coming along, is the most exciting, I think.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

• I, for one, have no interest at all in having my heart stolen.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Heart

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

  

  Doris Lessing