Muriel Spark Quotes
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
Quotes to Explore
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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I hate jeans for no reason.
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Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
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So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.
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I desperately need the love of complete strangers. That's one reason I overtip. I love when skycaps, waiters, and valets are happy to see me.
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
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Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
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I like Oklahoma. It's a quiet place. You can work, and nobody disturbs you.
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Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
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I think that I sound a lot better than Diana Ross.
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All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
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The first impression a speaker makes on his audience is by his appearance and demeanor. Well-groomed or not? Self-Confident or not? Nervous or not? Paper-shuffler or not? All this and more before he says a word. The next impression is how the speaker talks. Forceful or not? Correct diction or not? Too much use of hands? Walking around? If so, too much? Any distracting mannerisms such as always shoving his spectacles back up his nose? Speaks too loud? Too soft? “Talks down” to the audience?The next impression is about what he says—the content of his talk. Are the thoughts well-organized? Or is he just “winging it?
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The golden age is before us, not behind us.
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With light field technology, there is a huge opportunity for creativity in photography that hasn't been available in the past.
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I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
