Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes
Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.
Hilary Mantel
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My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.
Mandy Patinkin
Planned Parenthood has a large target on its back.
Brown Campbell
I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
Samuel Johnson
Good people all, with one acord,Lament for Madame Blaize,Who never wanted a good word —From those who spoke her praise.
Oliver Goldsmith
The panel put targets, for example, on nutrition, education, ending preventable child deaths, encouraging birth registration, putting an end to violence against girls, and child marriage - all of which, if enacted, will improve the lives of billions of children throughout the world.
Tawakkol Karman
The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
Buffalo Bill
I came into acting with that sort of dull, meet-with-triumph-and-disaster-the-same philosophy and it's been the right one for me.
Jamie Sives
Now just the thought of eating ice cream puts pounds on me.
David Nail
She soon found the door the alethiometer had told her about. The sign on it said DARK MATTER RESEARCH UNIT, and under it someone had scribbled R.I.P. Another hand had added in pencil DIRECTOR: LAZARUS. Lyra made nothing of that. She knocked, and a woman's voice said, 'Come in.'
Philip Pullman
To the truly driven (which one has to be to survive in the high stakes, competitive world of show business), lack of opportunity means nothing. The TDs always think numbers are for everyone else and don't involve them.
K Callan
Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.
Hilary Mantel
