Fay Weldon Quotes
Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.Fay Weldon
Quotes to Explore
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During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
Fareed Zakaria -
Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
Larry Kramer -
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp -
We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback -
It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
Zachary Quinto -
Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
Orlando Bloom
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
Caitlin Moran -
I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
E. L. James -
Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
Wavy Gravy -
It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
Carla Gugino -
Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.
Omar Ahmad -
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
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I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.
Daniel Boulud -
How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
Vaughn Monroe -
I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.
Victoria Clark -
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Samuel Butler -
A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
Iqbal Quadir -
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Vaclav Havel
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
Karolyn Grimes -
While you're setting something up that's educational for yourself, you have an opportunity to teach others at the same time.
Bjork -
We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.
Kathy Acker -
Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.
William Cullen Bryant -
Novelties please less than they impress.
Charles Dickens -
Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.
Fay Weldon