Celia Fremlin Quotes

A man’s character, she reflected with surprise, consists a good deal more of the way people feel and behave towards him than of the way he himself feels and behaves.

Celia Fremlin

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• It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • World
  • Child
  • Touring

• A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Control
  • Woman
  • Gun

• God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • God
  • Experience
  • Energy

• I'm not much of a jokester.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Much

• We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • America
  • Freedom

• I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Think
  • Morning

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • World
  • Marriage

• I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Thoughts
  • Head

• I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.

  

  W. Richard Stevens
  • Country
  • Job
  • Cold

• A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • World
  • Like
  • More

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Money
  • Food
  • Know

• The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Single

• During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Live
  • Years
  • London

• If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• I've had a few ditty hits.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Had
  • Few
  • Hits

• The one thing that is sort of sneered at and not really believed is bisexuality. Any bisexual man is just seen as a closeted gay man. That shows how narrow-minded people are. The other thing that's totally neglected and which nobody approves of is celibacy. People again assume that you're just repressing something.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Man
  • Gay

• Disney is very much a child's theater - it's a very specific kind of acting. It's loud and boisterous with the goal to draw the attention of children and keep the attention of children, and it can kind of be cheesy and loud, and I had to unpack a lot of that, because as an actor, you kind of internalize, and you basically become a character.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Children
  • Character
  • Attention

• One should try to locate power at the extreme of its exercise, where it is always less legal in character.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Character
  • Power
  • Locate

• We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Trying
  • Chance
  • Take

• Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Age
  • Superiority
  • Aristocracy

• A man’s character, she reflected with surprise, consists a good deal more of the way people feel and behave towards him than of the way he himself feels and behaves.

  

  Celia Fremlin
  • Character
  • Man
  • Feel