Monica Ali Quotes

I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do.

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• There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Now
  • Expression

• The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Social
  • Scientist
  • Novelist

• I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • School
  • Me
  • Stop

• Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Poverty
  • Wealth
  • Ultimate

• To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Friends
  • Old
  • Comforting

• Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• Life isn't fair, and it isn't government's job to make life fair. But if you're not willing to give up on yourself, then we shouldn't give up on you, either.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

  

  Gary Becker
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• My job as an editor is to gently prod the attention of the audience to look at various parts of the frame. And that - I do that by manipulating how and where I cut and what succession of images I work with.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Work
  • Job
  • Attention

• In her sepulcher there by the sea - In her tomb by the sounding sea.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sea

• No one has ever suggested that tax exemption has converted libraries, art galleries, or hospitals into arms of the state or employees 'on the public payroll.' There is no genuine nexus between tax exemption and establishment of religion.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Art

• New York is a lovely city. It is an easy city to go back to and an easy city to leave. Every time I go there I immediately make travel plans.

  

  Kiran Desai
  • Time
  • City
  • Travel

• Huir el rostro al claro desengaño,beber veneno por licor süave,olvidar el provecho, amar el daño;creer que un cielo en un infierno cabe,dar la vida y el alma a un desengaño;esto es amor. Quien lo probó lo sabe.

  

  Lope de Vega

• For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • Great

• The world has so much suffering in it already-choosing to be vegetarian is one thing you can do to reduce the suffering on a daily basis.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Daily

• I grew up with a single mom, two brothers, and a sister, and after school, we would play outside then go home for dinner and play videogames together. It's something I enjoy doing, and it's also cheap entertainment compared to a movie or paying for cable. You pay $50 one time for a game, and you can play it as many times as you want.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Up
  • Dance

• Working with new people can be really hard and nerve-wracking. When you don't know the person, it's like being on a blind date.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • People

• The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • World
  • Business
  • Own

• He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Lost
  • Decision

• We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in the blending, and with sauces whose ingredients are even now a secret.

  

  Macdonald Critchley
  • Brain
  • Secret
  • Ingredients

• By a lot of peoples standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on.

  

  Catherine Tate
  • Attention
  • Share
  • Materials

• I wish I got a lie-in on Saturday mornings but I never do.

  

  Monica Ali
  • Wish
  • Morning