Deborah Levy Quotes

I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.

Deborah Levy

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• My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived, I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Trying
  • She

• I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered because I was continually mucking about with irrelevant side issues, which I often found to be more interesting.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • School
  • Interesting
  • Problems

• My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Parents
  • Army
  • Very

• We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Children
  • May

• Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Broken
  • Fly
  • Wings

• Once a maggot, always a maggot.

  

  Christy Romano
  • Maggots

• Alex has got toughness about him. It's just that you spend so much time trying to find out what other people want, as opposed to doing what you got to do. You're trying to please everybody and do what everybody expects you to do. And the thing is, they ain't under the same gun.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Business
  • Talking
  • Ifs

• The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Believe
  • inspirational
  • Motivational

• I was just very into things that were the opposite of what other people liked. I didn't want to listen to music that I could find at a friend's house. My identity was really forged around that, and you know, eventually that kind of identity gets dismantled and fed to the vultures. But I was somehow on my own mission.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Music
  • House

• I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Time
  • Live
  • Relationship

• I do believe in women. I really do.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Believe
  • Women

• Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Opportunity
  • Democracy
  • Obtain

• So the HP guy comes up to me (at the Melbourne conference) and he says, 'If you say nasty things like that to vendors you're not going to get anything'. I said, 'No, in eight years of saying nothing, we've got nothing, and I'm going to start saying nasty things, in the hope that some of these vendors will start giving me money so I'll shut up'.

  

  Theo de Raadt
  • Said
  • Eight
  • Conferences

• Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.

  

  Cyrus Augustus Bartol
  • Credit
  • Letters
  • Manners

• The main thing for a bowler is his wrist position, and that, as I've said before, is something I'm working on.

  

  Amir Mohamed
  • Working
  • Position
  • Bowler

• I have never got a grip on when the past begins or where it ends, but if cities map the past with statues made from bronze forever frozen in one dignified position, as much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.

  

  Deborah Levy
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  • Manners
  • Grip