Sonya Hartnett Quotes

A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

Sonya Hartnett

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• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Great
  • Done
  • Kids

• This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Think
  • Pain

• I see four principles as laying the foundations for the kind of economic recovery Europe needs: fairness, efficiency, solidarity and growth.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Growth
  • Recovery
  • Fairness

• If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Sex
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!

  

  Cara Black
  • Motorcycle
  • Once
  • Morocco

• Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Useful

• Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Up
  • You
  • See

• Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Time
  • Death
  • Unknown

• An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her with a vague anguish...like a shadow... a mist passing across her soul's summer day.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Soul
  • Summer
  • Shadow

• The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Disease
  • Here
  • Syndrome

• Donald Trump is either a racist or peddling to it, and both are frankly unacceptable and make him unfit to be president of the United States.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Trump

• I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Son

• It's basically the same, just darker.

  

  Alan Kulwicki
  • Darker

• I don't think you learn as much about yourself when you are moving forwards as when you have fallen backwards. That's when you really learn who you are. And reach for the things that have propelled you forward and made you a better person.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Moving

• I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Idea
  • Actor
  • Script

• Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Work
  • Imagination
  • Creativity

• I'm not really a femme fatale.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Really
  • Femme Fatale
  • Femme

• I think it is a sad reflection on our civilisation that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus, we do not know what goes on inside our souffles.

  

  Nicholas Kurti
  • Atmosphere
  • Goes On
  • Civilisation

• A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

  

  Sonya Hartnett
  • Eye
  • Bird
  • Towns