Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

Hilary Mantel

• War
• Sometimes
• Looks

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Parents
  • Crazy
  • Month

• I don't like possessions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Like
  • Possessions

• If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Nobody
  • Anymore
  • Crowded

• Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Government
  • Greek
  • Debate

• Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Good
  • Water
  • Morning

• I did some good things as a rookie.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Good
  • Good Things
  • Rookie

• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Job
  • Father

• You have to understand that PTSD has to be an event that you experience, a very traumatic event. And actually, there is evidence that brain chemistry changes during this event in certain individuals where it's imprinted indelibly forever and there's an emotion associated with this which triggers the condition.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Experience
  • Brain
  • Forever

• I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Women
  • Money
  • Need

• An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Why
  • Know
  • Tomorrow

• Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Movie
  • You
  • Try

• I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Good
  • Music
  • Words

• The settlers, as we know, are the only people in Israel who take the Left seriously. When you read the settlers' publications, you think that the leftists are everywhere: The leftists infiltrate the government, the leftists run the Defense Ministry, the leftists dominate the legal establishment, and the leftists control the media, of course.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Control
  • Government

• The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • History
  • Duty
  • Rewrite

• Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • World
  • Gay

• In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Work
  • College
  • Dying

• I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Night
  • Sometimes
  • Walking

• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Losing

• 'Call Of Duty' initially cut its teeth on World War II simulation stuff, and then we gradually advanced to the end of the Cold War, but you can't keep doing the same thing over and over again. And I think that because 'Call Of Duty' cut its teeth on presenting 'realism,' in quotes... verisimilitude.

  

  David S. Goyer
  • World
  • War
  • Cold

• I listened for the voice I knew so well, the one I always heard at the beginning. Good girl, Macy! You're doing great! You know the first steps are the hardest part! They were. Sometimes I felt so out of sync, it was all could do not to quit after a few strides. But I kept on, as I did now. I had to, to get to the next part, this part, where I finally caught up with Wes, my shadow aligning itself with his, an dhe turned to look at me, pushing his hair our of his eyes.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Girl
  • Hair
  • Sometimes

• Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • War
  • Sometimes
  • Looks