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

• Strong ties with a particular place, the fact that something flourishes there and has a special smell or taste - all this is being lost.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Strong
  • Lost
  • Place

• 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 used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

  

  Evan Dando
  • Feel Better
  • Haircut

• We need a Palestinian state - that is the ultimate goal, and this is the position of all the European Union.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Goal
  • Need
  • Position

• What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Authority
  • Americans
  • Virtues

• 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
  • Position
  • Manners
  • Grip