Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?
Hilary Mantel
Quotes to Explore
-
I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.
Aaron Neville
-
I made a living being a background singer for years.
Katey Sagal
-
We've been in the same house since 1960, so we've been here for 45 years now.
Pat Boone
-
We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do, given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.
Carl Sagan
-
I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.
Taylor Swift
-
Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.
Natalie Babbitt
-
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
E. M. Forster
-
Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
iO Tillett Wright
-
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Flora Lewis
-
Unlike physical progress, which is subject to natural restrictions, the qualities of the mind can be developed limitlessly.
Dalai Lama
-
We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.
Lao Tzu
-
So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?
Hilary Mantel
