William Trevor Quotes

I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

William Trevor

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• Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Home
  • Running
  • Enjoy

• It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Find
  • Everyday

• People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • Nature
  • Story
  • Lovers

• In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • You
  • See
  • Yoga

• True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • True
  • Know

• I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Different
  • Trying

• Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• Australia is an island surrounded by water. My fondest memories growing up were trips to the beach, walking around the harbor and playing in the beautiful parks.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Growing

• When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Listen
  • Take
  • Drive

• My mother has a tremendous amount of pride and self-respect. She won't take assistance from anybody.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • She
  • Mother
  • Respect

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• I've read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Words
  • Dog
  • Him

• It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Me

• Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Strong
  • Control
  • Action

• The good news is hopeful doesn't mean dumb. The bad news is cynical doesn't mean smart.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Mean
  • Smart
  • Cynical

• Microsoft is a much bigger company than Qualcomm - a much bigger company - and there were a few days where I thought, 'I don't know if I can do this. It's huge.' My job was to come into the company and grow new businesses, and I thought, 'I'm not sure,' but it's all worked out pretty well.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Job
  • Pretty

• One of the hazards of making a major discovery early in your career is the burden of expectation, not helped in my case by becoming a wife and mother soon afterwards. I'm sure some people think it was a flash in the pan.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • People
  • Mother
  • Career

• I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • English

• I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither.

  

  William Trevor
  • Thinking
  • Mother
  • Inspiring