Jeanette Winterson Quotes
Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.
Quotes to Explore
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.
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I love running and I will always run.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'
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Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.
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Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to him as if Poe were one of the black slaves; some of the students at UVA surely felt the same about being told what to do by faculty.
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For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.
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I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.
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I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.
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Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.
