Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

Jeanette Winterson

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• Expenditures rise to meet income.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Meet
  • Rise
  • Income

• I waited for my first kiss.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • First
  • Kiss
  • First Kiss

• I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Think
  • Know

• There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Digital

• Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Disappointing

• Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Talk
  • React

• When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • American
  • Story
  • Original

• I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Time
  • Day
  • Rest

• Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Mean
  • Everything
  • Computers

• There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Art
  • Think

• I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Dying

• Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Thought
  • Sin

• To nurture the sort of relationships that will truly help propel you towards accomplishing great things, you need to forget transactional networking and focus on having in-depth conversations with fewer people about subjects you really care about.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Look
  • Healthy
  • Height

• I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Worried
  • Burnout

• I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Work Hard

• I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • May
  • Nature
  • Society

• They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Men
  • Together
  • Guy

• Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Children
  • Love
  • Possible

• If you'd have asked me two years ago, I'd have been like "No, anything and everything. Go for it." Now, I want to focus on doing the best I can each time. But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.

  

  Ty Segall
  • Thinking
  • Focus

• I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

  

  Jeanette Winterson