Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.

Hilary Mantel

• Feelings
• Blow
• Bones
• Shiver

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• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Gracious

• In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Tolerance

• 'Bramhotsavam' is a celebration of families, life and togetherness. It's a film I hold close to my heart.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Celebration

• I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• The creation of NIT has ensured some seats for admission in undergraduate courses for students of Arunachal Pradesh, which will bound to uplift economics of locality directly or indirectly and help in enhancing human development index in the state.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Help
  • Creation
  • Economics

• I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Women
  • Age
  • Feel

• Our great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Great
  • Children
  • May

• People in the NBA are just as athletic as you. That's the game. You have to have the change of pace. You have to change speeds to get around people.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • People
  • Game

• Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Smile

• Let not one bring Learning, another Diligence, another Religion, but every one bring all.

  

  John Donne
  • Learning

• I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• The simplest answer is to act.

  

  Amy Sarig King

• I love the weed, blow that odour

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Blow
  • Weed

• There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.

  

  David Milch
  • Money
  • Blow

• The first morning after Westley's departure, Buttercup thought she was entitled to do nothing more than sit around moping and feeling sorry for herself. After all, the love of her life had fled, life had no meaning, how could you face the future, et cetera, et cetera.

  

  William Goldman
  • Morning
  • Feelings
  • Sorry

• There are many Iranians working at NASA. One of the engineers involved with the spaceship that went to Mars is an Iranian.

  

  Farah Pahlavi

• There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Feelings
  • Blow
  • Bones