Muriel Spark Quotes

If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

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• I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Important
  • Learn
  • Mistakes

• People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Trying
  • Looking

• I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Political
  • Independence

• I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Want
  • Person
  • Relationships

• I'm not super into sports.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Sports
  • Super

• Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Time
  • Bible

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Hand

• In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Policy
  • Views
  • Spectrum

• The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Why
  • Church
  • Values

• If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Giving

• I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Sure

• He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Power
  • Best
  • Wind

• Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Dreams
  • Snow

• Sir, what is Poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is: but it is not easy to tell what it is.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Why
  • Light
  • Poetry

• 'I've been seeing the waves and the white beach of Grand Isle; the quiet, grassy street of the Chênière Caminada; the old sunny fort at Grand Terre. I've been working with a little more comprehension than a machine, and still feeling like a lost soul.'

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Soul
  • Feeling
  • Lost

• I'd always dabbled in acting.

  

  Nelsan Ellis

• Coconut is one of those love-hate ingredients.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Hate

• I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • People
  • Time

• Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Never
  • Famous
  • Street

• I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

  

  Ben Marcus
  • Relationship

• the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Behinds
  • Painful
  • Forgiving

• Sometimes, a scene goes on too long and, with this being a suspense story and murder mystery that you're trying to discover through her heightened paranoia, you don't want scenes that take you on a tangent. Sometimes, you love those scenes, but you know that it's better not to be in the overall film. So, I'm not sad that they're not in the main movie, but I do think it's fun for people to get to watch them, if they want to.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Sometimes

• If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

  

  Muriel Spark
  • Trying
  • Patterns
  • Conventional