Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place. Suppose the human skull were to become capacious, spaces opening inside it, humming chambers like beehives.
Hilary Mantel
Quotes to Explore
Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
Sam Childers
When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
Kangana Ranaut
I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.
Victoria Beckham
Spice Girls
When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.
Sally Phillips
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
Pablo Casals
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore
I took a cookery course. On the examination, I had to cook a cheese omelet with peas and an egg custard. With the egg custard, which was supposed to be a dessert, I forget to put the sugar in, so that's more of a quiche, isn't it?
Lesley Nicol
When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.
Janelle Monae
Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
Al Pacino
Never make a major decision based solely on money.
Chuck Noll
Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place. Suppose the human skull were to become capacious, spaces opening inside it, humming chambers like beehives.
Hilary Mantel
