Pippa Middleton Quotes
When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
-
If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
-
As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be.
-
Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
-
Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
-
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
-
I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.
-
I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
-
What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
-
With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
-
One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
-
There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
-
If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.
-
One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
-
My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
-
I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.
-
I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence.
-
An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.
-
My mom allowed me to take an old burlap bag and fill it with moss, corn stalks and rocks, then hang it from a tree and spend an hour a day punching my heavy bag.
-
I think that's in my case everything I do takes so long because I don't have one direction. I'm just doing what I feel at the moment. It would probably be good, though, to have some direction.
-
(M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast.
-
When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.
