Eve Bunting Quotes

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

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• This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Fear
  • Space
  • Hurt

• Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Up
  • Never
  • Grow

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Food
  • Me
  • Healthy

• I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

  

  Van Morrison
  • Never
  • Moon
  • Silver

• Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Business
  • Body
  • Negative

• Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Me
  • Boxing
  • Early

• Across energy, food, transportation, housing, and all of that, very little of our progress is going to be through getting people to voluntarily consume less. People resist that tremendously. What we have to do, if we want to succeed, is provide more of the clean, non-polluting, climate-safe options in all of these.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Energy
  • Food

• All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Art
  • Pain
  • Best

• If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Money
  • Credit
  • Bitcoin

• I shoot, I score. He shoots, I score.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Score
  • Shoot
  • He

• In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Want
  • Color

• Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Peace
  • Become
  • Smoke

• We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.

  

  N. K. Jemisin

• La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Writing
  • Married
  • Jealous

• If you come to our country, don't expect to be taken care of, to be looked after, that your children will be educated without charge.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Country
  • Children
  • Taken

• I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Children
  • I Think
  • Written

• [The web] is going to end up being a tremendous advantage, providing we can work out the financial structure. I think we'll see newspapers survive, being printed at home. Or you'll have a local print shop, so that rather than waiting for the newspapers to arrive by truck, which is 30 percent at least of a newspaper's cost, you'll go in and push a button, and it will take your dollar bills without anyone having to be there. And it will print the newspaper for you while you wait. It will take seven minutes. There's a terrific future for print in my view and it gives me great heart.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Advantage
  • Web
  • Tremendous

• I have no intention of ever working with the Spice girls again.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Working
  • Intention
  • Spice Girls

• Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Language
  • Procrastination
  • Alphabet

• I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

  

  Eve Bunting
  • Stories
  • Books
  • Written