Jeanette Winterson Quotes

If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

Jeanette Winterson

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• I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Why
  • Like
  • Always

• I never try to follow a trend or fashion.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Fashion
  • Never
  • Try

• The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Years
  • Losing
  • Key

• What a publication can do is to help people get a clearer picture without jumping to any rash conclusion. I'm very happy that the 'Post' can take the responsibility to report on China in a broader and deeper way. I believe the 'Post' must be fair to our readers. We should let our readers see China from more angles and perspectives.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Believe
  • Happy

• I've failed once or twice real big, independent.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Real
  • Independent
  • Big

• The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Country
  • May
  • Fear

• I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • God
  • Movie
  • Acting

• It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• I have no new voices - they've all been used.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • New
  • Used
  • Voices

• Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Will
  • Over
  • Ghost

• Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Confidence
  • Things
  • Sexiest

• We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Church
  • Morning
  • Sunday

• If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Life
  • God
  • Nature

• TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Theater

• She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• It is not enough to accept a concept of order and live by it; that is cowardice, and such cowardice cannot result from freedom. Chaos must be faced. Real order must be preceded by a descent into chaos.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Live
  • Real
  • Freedom

• Jay gave me a co-sign like I was RocaWear, but be clear I'm not the air/heir I'm the water, fire and the earth That means I'm doing dirt, spitting flames and quenching thirst

  

  Wasalu Muhammad Jaco
  • Earth
  • Water
  • Air

• I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • School
  • High
  • Game

• We never want to update 'Black Watch,' because it's about a moment in time, and through that moment, it manages to speak about Afghanistan and all other wars. This play is 'about' Iraq, but it's actually about every war that's ever been or will ever be.

  

  John Tiffany
  • Time
  • War
  • Black

• You turned your guilt into resentment, because that seems easier to face. You won't move on until you turn it back into guilt, and then into forgiveness for yourself.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Forgiveness
  • Guilt
  • Resentment

• I really think the Uberfication of everything is a trend that I didn't expect to be coming this fast. I mean, every single thing you want to do in your life, people are building services to take all the pain out.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • People
  • Life
  • Single

• One of the primary reasons why the human brain has evolved to look so far into the future is so that we can take actions in the present that will bring us to a better future rather than a worse one.

  

  Daniel Goldstein
  • Why
  • Future
  • Present

• A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

  

  Ernest Dimnet
  • Life
  • School
  • Teaching

• If we make anything that lasts, it outlives us.

  

  Jeanette Winterson