Mary Shelley Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
-
You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
-
I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
-
I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
-
Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
-
I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
-
When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
-
I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
-
It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
-
Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
-
Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
-
Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
-
I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
-
The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
-
We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
-
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
-
I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
-
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
-
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
-
I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.
-
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
-
I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.
-
The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
-
Live, and be happy, and make others so.
