Muriel Spark Quotes

If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

Muriel Spark

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• I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Soccer

• When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• My personality is extremely unbalanced.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Personality
  • Unbalanced

• We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Good
  • Society
  • Animal

• Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Time
  • War
  • New

• I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm, like, no one and I'm just starting out, and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • People
  • Work
  • Nice

• To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Good
  • You
  • Me

• I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Voice
  • Musical
  • Decent

• Time machine... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass *smack* I'M YOUR SON FROM THE FUTURE!! AAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! *smack* I'M FROM THE FUTURE!! I'M YOUR SON!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAH

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Time
  • Future

• Only a fool can't be fooled.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fool

• My girl has gone, and said goodbye.Don't you cry, hold your head up high.Don't give up, give love one more try,'Cause there's a right girl for every guy.

  

  Smokey Robinson
  • Up
  • High
  • Guy

• If I hadn't have had music in my life, it's quite possible I could be in here. Or nor even in here, be dead - and I'd much rather be alive.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Life
  • Music

• Sí, trataré de ser. Porque creo que es orgullo no ser.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I love running. I've been running ever since middle school. In terms of clearing your head and restarting everything, I love running.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • School
  • Running

• My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

  

  Kelly Reilly
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Humility

• I find it valuable to watch what I do. I like to know when I'm making a choice if it actually works or not.

  

  Jeffrey Pierce

• They came and bound me up and I had awful stretch marks. I hated my breasts after that.

  

  Christine Keeler
  • Up

• The American people say, 'Don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense.' That's 84 percent of the federal budget.

  

  Kent Conrad
  • People
  • American

• I think all old folk's homes should have striptease. If I ran one I'd have a striptease every week.

  

  Cynthia Payne

• I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Life
  • World
  • Job

• Mrs Hickmann was inclined to forgive Patrick the apparent purposelessness of his life and the sinister pallor of his complexion, when she considered that he has an income of one hundred thousand pounds a year, and came from a family which, although it had done nothing since, had seen the Norman invasion from the winning side.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Life
  • Family
  • Done

• If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

  

  Muriel Spark
  • Practice
  • Thoughts
  • Approach