Nina Bawden Quotes

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

Nina Bawden

• Read
• Novels
• Old Age

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Day
  • Democracy
  • Everyday

• One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Time
  • Country
  • Perspective

• The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • School
  • Day
  • Teachers

• I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Man
  • Hate

• I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

  

  Pam Gems
  • War
  • Philosophy
  • Personage

• I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Think
  • Crazy

• Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Man
  • Allah

• I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • History
  • Career

• I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Satisfied

• I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield' is a big book - is it epic? Amount of time covered, length, drama, or story - that's the real appeal - if the story is long you have a better chance of becoming more connected.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Getting Older

• I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Profession
  • Homebody

• We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Death
  • Stop
  • Space

• While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • World
  • Technology
  • Humanity

• My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom - it was almost overwhelming.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Real
  • Career
  • Movies

• Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams

  

  W. H. Auden
  • May
  • Dream
  • Cold

• Why have they been telling us women lately that we have no sense of humor -- when we are always laughing? . . . and when we're not laughing, we're smiling.

  

  Naomi Weisstein
  • Humor
  • Sense
  • Laughing

• I don’t want [my paintings’ subject matter] to be seen as a just a button. So they have to be read as not a button or a flower but something abstracted from which you can derive meaning.

  

  Donald Sultan
  • Read
  • Meaning
  • Paintings

• You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned.

  

  Judith Viorst
  • Old Age
  • Earned
  • Put Up

• I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.

  

  Petra Haden
  • Music
  • Read
  • Chord

• I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

  

  Richard Matheson
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Generations

• One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

  

  Nina Bawden
  • Read
  • Novels
  • Old Age