Mary Renault Quotes

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

Mary Renault

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• When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Song

• Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Help
  • Want
  • Everyone

• I never feel there's anything I can't do.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Never
  • Feel
  • Anything

• I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Doing
  • Looking
  • Roots

• I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Cabaret
  • Mohicans

• There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • People
  • Water
  • Leave

• The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Acting

• I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

  

  E. B. White
  • Space
  • See
  • View

• I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Comfort Zone

• I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Up
  • High
  • Think

• Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Souls
  • Corporations
  • Treason

• It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Support
  • Understand

• In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Years
  • Talking

• I'm an actor, and when I close the door at home I'm kind of off-duty.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Door

• To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Wall

• Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • End
  • Globalization

• It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Ride

• I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Idea
  • Audience
  • Alive

• It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we'd do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for improvisation.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Up
  • Death
  • City

• Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

  

  William Cowper
  • Pain
  • Sports
  • Pleasure

• Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

  

  William Godwin
  • Justice
  • Moral
  • Duty

• I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall'.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Good
  • Wall
  • Rose

• Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Story
  • Fancy
  • Boots

• Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

  

  Mary Renault