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

• I don't buy into that pressure to be glamorous all the time. It's impossible, I mean, you get a pimple in the morning, you wake up with bags under your eyes, you see if you can use it in your work, maybe incorporate it into your character.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• 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

• I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife. ... That's one thing guys don't understand. This is something that you would be very surprised that I understand, is that men are microwaves and women are pressure cookers. Men want sex, bang; women like romance. Guys, learn how to romance.

  

  Alice Cooper
  • Men
  • Women
  • Wife

• I was never lined up outside of my bosses office saying 'Give me an opportunity; there's not a woman in primetime'... I was just trying to be so good they couldn't ignore me.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Movie
  • Action
  • Gun

• Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

  

  William Harvey
  • Men
  • Influence
  • Doctrine

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

  

  Jeanette Winterson