Sarah Waters Quotes

What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you...Look.

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• To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Olympics
  • Qualify
  • World Championships

• I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Me
  • Angel
  • Drink

• All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Thought
  • Human
  • White

• I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • School
  • Huge
  • Atlanta

• I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Play

• This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Up
  • World
  • Reality

• At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Humanity
  • Individual
  • Crime

• I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.

  

  Zoe Tapper
  • Work
  • Earth
  • Motherhood

• You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Environment
  • Care
  • Healthy

• It seems that in the rush to be the first one to the story, the media overstates things. Not maliciously; I don't think they're intentionally misleading. But the credibility gap is already there, and in this rush to get to the story first, a lot of mainstream outlets just erode their credibility further.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Think
  • Story
  • Media

• But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Love
  • Think
  • Death

• When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Right

• It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Parents
  • Desire

• My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Important
  • Father
  • Party

• The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • History
  • Organization

• Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Progress
  • Ignore
  • Fail

• At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • Waiting

• You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see.

  

  Cecily von Ziegesar
  • Looks
  • Faces
  • Gorgeous

• Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • Gratitude

• My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often-in fact, mostly-at the expense of everything else in my life

  

  Stan Getz
  • Life
  • Music
  • Perfection

• What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you...Look.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Looks
  • Said
  • Doe