Winifred Holtby Quotes

I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords.

Winifred Holtby

• Desire
• Expressing
• Pedestrian

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• My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Food
  • Relationship
  • Desire

• All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Desire
  • Natural

• Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Creation

• If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • People
  • Important
  • Live

• Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • May
  • Desire
  • Possible

• Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Desire
  • Beauty
  • Down

• Desire is the essence of a man.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Essence

• Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Political
  • Desire
  • Imperialism

• I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Music
  • Fun

• From some, the light was scarcely more than a gloom:From some, a dazzling desire.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Light
  • Desire

• The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

  

  David Suzuki
  • May
  • Desire

• Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form silent opinions based on our choices of subway reading. Just by glimpsing the cover staring back at us, we can reach the pinnacle of carnal desire or the depths of hatred. Soul mate or mortal enemy.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Together
  • Soul
  • Opportunity

• Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Desire
  • Failure

• When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

  

  Leslie Easterbrook
  • Up
  • Great
  • Desire

• I have no desire to go through the emancipation of women and homosexuals all over again.

  

  Pim Fortuyn
  • Women
  • Desire

• I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.

  

  Lee Radziwill
  • Lost
  • Desire

• My version of a good role model is everything that I have strived to become over the years, as I have a deep desire to live an honest life and give relentlessly and openly to people who look up to me.

  

  Dove Cameron
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Parents

• We also honour the great Che Guevara, whose revolutionary exploits, including on our own continent, were too powerful for any prison censors to hide from us. The life of Che is an inspiration to all human beings who cherish freedom. We will always honour his memory.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Powerful

• The opportunities for infinite possibility exist no matter what age we are.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Age
  • Opportunities
  • Possibility

• The true Mason's level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Levels
  • Increase
  • Discernment

• However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Writing
  • May
  • Pretty

• I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

  

  Ian Botham
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Parents

• I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Desire
  • Expressing
  • Pedestrian