Penelope Lively Quotes

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

Penelope Lively

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• I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Goal
  • Process
  • Obsessed

• I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Religious
  • More
  • Say

• I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Feel
  • Alien

• Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Believe
  • Guy
  • Down

• Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Against
  • Top
  • Debt

• Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Me
  • Race
  • Against

• A man is as alive as he can communicate.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Alive
  • Communicate

• I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that's relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• If I'm not happy with what's going on, I try to change it myself.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Happy
  • Change
  • Myself

• When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Up
  • Why
  • Myself

• First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • House
  • Sleep
  • First

• I'm not against gay people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Gay
  • Against

• There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Done
  • Christmas

• Today is a big step in our march toward equality. Gay and lesbian couples now have the right to marry, just like anyone else. #LoveWins.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Today
  • Gay
  • Equality

• White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street:Moscow, Paris London, Vienna - all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • World
  • Death
  • Paris

• 'Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.'

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Small
  • Democracy

• All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

  

  Alexis Carrel
  • Great
  • Men
  • Intuition

• The older I get, the younger I feel. Growing up, I was always the kid, but I spoke like an adult and was in adult roles. I didn't feel like a kid. The older I get, I actually feel younger! Which is good. I always thought when you get older, you'll want to slow down, but I want to do even more.

  

  Brooke Shields
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• The concept of historical necessity is the product of rational thought and arrived in Russia by the Western route. The idea of the noble savage, of an inherently good human nature hampered by bad institutions, of the ideal state, of social justice and so forth - none of these originated or blossomed on the banks of the Volga.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Nature

• I have tons of music stashed.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • Music

• You cannot struggle to joy. Struggle and joy are not on the same channel. You joy your way to joy. You laugh your way to success. It is through your joy that good things come.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Joy
  • Struggle
  • Laughing

• I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.

  

  Penelope Lively