Sue Townsend (Susan Lillian Townsend) Quotes

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Sue Townsend

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• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Up
  • Children
  • Grow

• Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Soul
  • Living
  • Talk

• This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Organization
  • Uncertainty

• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Achievement
  • Class
  • Size

• To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Artistic

• I'm not the same person as the character I do in my songs. She's crazy! The 'Daddy Song' was the first sketch I ever wrote, especially on the guitar and everything - and definitely the most offensive. And absurd.

  

  Carly Craig
  • She
  • Character
  • Song

• Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Great
  • Value

• An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Long
  • Understanding
  • Race

• After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Night
  • Water
  • Myself

• La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Fearless

• When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don't make money from as a cost.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• Country music has always sort of been country music.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Music
  • Country

• Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day.

  

  Joe Baca

• I'm always interested in what fans think.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl

• Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.

  

  Jamaica Kincaid
  • May

• A great pop song should be felt when you hear it.

  

  Max Martin
  • Great
  • Song

• I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Audience
  • Shadow
  • Shy

• It's a paradox to be an actress, living in the city, taking planes all the time, trying to find the right balance in this life, which is not so eco-friendly, and still try to respect the environment.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Life
  • Time
  • Trying

• You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are challenging and you find the joy. You realize there are so many people that have it much worse and remind yourself. I have been very blessed.

  

  Kelly Rutherford
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Culture

• Being an artist doesn't just mean you have a song. That doesn't make you an artist. The word 'artist' means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists - Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West - are doing the most.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

  

  Sue Townsend
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Transformed