Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

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• As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Experiences

• One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • War
  • Know
  • Rules

• I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Up
  • Change
  • Year

• Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Moving
  • Speed
  • Efficiency

• The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Support
  • President
  • Vacancy

• Usually, if you notice good cinematography, then the cinematographer's failing. I try to make light feel like it's always motivated and natural in some way and hope that the lighting goes unnoticed.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Way

• You can rest assured that his salary is in line with where he has brought the program in the Big East and nationally. We've provided him with a good salary, one that is competitive in the Big East and one that shows we're happy to have him as our head coach.

  

  Jeff Long
  • Coach
  • Competitive
  • Salary

• If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.

  

  William McDonough
  • Moving
  • Games
  • Ends

• A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; And liquor likewise will I give to thee, And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Giving
  • Brotherhood
  • Noble

• There's a very fine margin in winning and losing, ... The way we've played in so many games, the point production, the great defense -- there's a lot more to deal with that's positive than negative.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Winning
  • Games
  • Negative

• Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry.

  

  E. V. Knox
  • Golf
  • Numbers
  • Shapes

• Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.

  

  Saul David
  • Talking
  • Fiction
  • Historian

• In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than the largest elephant. We had never before seen them save at night, and indeed they are nocturnal animals save when disturbed in their lairs, as these had been. We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Spring
  • Elephant
  • Succession

• Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Shapes
  • Historian
  • Select