Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and starving ponies cropping the mud. It is a landscape running with outcasts and escapees, with Afghans, Turks and Kurds: with scapegoats, scarred with bottle and burn marks, limping from the cities with broken ribs. The life forms here are rejects, or anomalies: the cats tipped from speeding cars, and the Heathrow sheep, their fleece clotted with the stench of aviation fuel.

Hilary Mantel

• Car
• Broken
• Cat
• Aviation
• Wire
• Outcast
• Scapegoat
• Anomalies

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• Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Life
  • Art
  • Nature

• You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • King
  • Defeat

• I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • World
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Self
  • Ride
  • Motorcycle

• Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Religion
  • Islam

• Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Know

• The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Myself
  • Stage

• I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Research

• If you're going to call a book 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History,' readers will expect some serious carrying on about race, and Thomas Woods Jr. does not disappoint.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Book
  • American
  • History

• I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • First
  • Old
  • Boston

• If I try harder I might be reincarnated as a lonely virgin hiding behind a cartoon frog.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Lonely

• I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Together

• I never really wanted to be a singer. I always preferred to be behind the camera.

  

  Kali Uchis

• You can't put rubbish into a computer and get something good out.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • Good

• My goal is to do cartwheels for the rest of my life.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Life
  • Rest

• I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

  

  Dwayne Johnson

• I like to travel. I love touring, I love playing.

  

  Lita Ford
  • Travel

• No one ever saw all of him. It took me nearly four decades to allow my father his shadows, his reserve, to sit silently with him and not clamor for something more.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Father

• Less is only more where more is no good.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Good

• I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

  

  Toni Braxton
  • Trying

• A salesman called on my wife the other day and tried to sell her a freezer. You'll save a fortune on your food bills, he promised. I can't tell you how much you'll save. It'll be tremendous. Said my wife: I'm sure you're right, but we're already saving a fortune with our new car by not taking the bus. We're saving a fortune with our new washing machine by not sending out the laundry. We're saving a fortune with our new dishwasher by giving up the maid. The plain truth is that right now we just can't afford to save any more!

  

  Joey Bishop
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Giving

• I remember one night in Memphis, I'd come out of a blackout, and I didn't know where I was. I'm feeling through the darkness - I was asleep in the middle of a freeway. I went up to this car in the darkness, and it was a cop car.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Remember
  • Night
  • Car

• Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.

  

  Brie Larson

• A sea-green sky: lamps blossoming white. This is marginal land: fields of strung wire, of treadless tyres in ditches, fridges dead on their backs, and starving ponies cropping the mud. It is a landscape running with outcasts and escapees, with Afghans, Turks and Kurds: with scapegoats, scarred with bottle and burn marks, limping from the cities with broken ribs. The life forms here are rejects, or anomalies: the cats tipped from speeding cars, and the Heathrow sheep, their fleece clotted with the stench of aviation fuel.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Car
  • Broken
  • Cat