Hilary Mantel (Dame Hilary Mary Mantel) Quotes

Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.

Hilary Mantel

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• Lying
• Sin
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• Yesterday
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• Rotting

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• I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Wise
  • Back

• If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Work
  • Funny

• Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Home
  • Easy
  • Coffee

• Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Child
  • Self-Esteem

• Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Try
  • Take
  • Retreat

• The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Snow

• Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Virtue
  • Patriotism
  • Vicious

• I think if people were to look at badminton and tennis, they'd see they're actually very similar; the profile would increase, and we might be in a better position as a sport.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Better
  • Tennis

• I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Wrong
  • Frustration

• I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Think
  • Actor
  • FBI

• Land is everything.

  

  Burt Shavitz

• I must've got whacked on the head. He presented a totally false person for me to fall in love with.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Fall

• I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.

  

  Denise Mina

• You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

  

  Jim Rohn
  • Value

• Often, in horror films, the single most effective device for building a sense of scariness is the soundtrack: the clanking of chains, the groaning of off-stage ghouls, the unmistakable sound of a cannibal rustic firing up a chainsaw.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Up
  • Single

• I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.

  

  Curt Schilling
  • Party

• I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie, I think it's safe to say.

  

  Chelsea Manning

• If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they'd tear me apart.

  

  Dree Hemingway
  • Great
  • Book
  • Dream

• A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

  

  Susan Sontag
  • World
  • Attention
  • Writer

• Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet,From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,Lest I should fear, and fall, and miss Thee so,Who art not missed by any that entreat.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Art
  • Fear
  • Fall

• I feel like if you told me I would be having a son, I would be like, 'Yeah, I'm gonna be a parent - I get that.' But when the doctor was like, 'You're gonna have a girl,' I was like, 'What? Who am I?' It's the craziest piece of information that changes who you are. It's sweet.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Girl
  • Son
  • Sweet

• The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting
  • Lying

• I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Country
  • Lying
  • Determination

• Over the city lies the sweet, rotting odor of yesterday's unrecollected sins.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Sweet
  • Lying
  • Sin