Muriel Spark Quotes

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

Muriel Spark

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• Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Best

• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • May
  • Happiness

• A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Doing
  • Brazil

• The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Like
  • Baseball
  • Sound

• Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Film

• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

  

  Jack London
  • Me
  • Planet
  • Glow

• 'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Future
  • Song
  • Style

• I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Pressure
  • Grateful

• I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Space
  • Exploration

• You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Work
  • Job
  • Help

• I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Today
  • Want
  • Know

• You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Different
  • You
  • Sometimes

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Life
  • Best
  • Page

• People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Money
  • Dress

• There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Perspective
  • Cat

• I do not need your loving words or hurried kiss as night comes down in the place where we once lived innocent as children, and happier.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Children
  • Night
  • Words

• On the Upper East Side, women are prisoners to the ideology of intensive motherhood, which is that you should be enriching your child's well-being on every measure you possibly can at every moment. So when your kid is sitting down playing with Legos, intensive motherhood dictates that you should be engaging with him or her somehow, praising, questioning, making it into a learning opportunity. It's not enough to just tell your child, "Do your homework." It's not enough to help with the homework. You go to the school and learn how they do math, so that you can tutor your child in math.

  

  Wednesday Martin
  • Opportunity
  • Motherhood
  • Prisoner

• It isn't the Lord who withholds himself from us. It is we who withhold ourselves from him because of our failure to keep his commandments.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Failure
  • Lord
  • Commandments

• If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.

  

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
  • Running
  • Chance
  • Projects

• It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

  

  Muriel Spark
  • Silence
  • Speech
  • Difficulty