Tanith Lee Quotes

Spells are words, and words are merely noises. You are the sorceress, not your instruction. Don’t limit yourself.

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• Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Job
  • Career

• When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Family
  • War
  • Peace

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Responsibility

• Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Best

• When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Political
  • Way
  • Christian

• I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Field
  • Plantation
  • Cane

• To read too many books is harmful.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Books
  • Read
  • Too

• It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Know
  • Lies

• I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • World
  • Dream
  • Thought

• There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Country
  • Fashion

• I certainly didn't have a nanny.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Certainly
  • Nanny

• 250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.

  

  Kamal Ahmed
  • Story
  • News
  • Cheers

• I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • Music
  • Parents

• I have only one counsel for you - be master.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • You
  • Master
  • Counsel

• In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Soul
  • Security
  • Losing

• All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Country
  • Fun
  • Song

• In my education, as in that of everyone, the moral influences, which are so much more important than all others, are also the most complicated, and the most difficult to specify with any approach to completeness.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Important
  • Education
  • Moral

• That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Vice
  • Politeness
  • Roguish

• The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Help
  • Brain
  • Humanity

• Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother.

  

  Charles Bronfman
  • War
  • Mother
  • Age

• Spells are words, and words are merely noises. You are the sorceress, not your instruction. Don’t limit yourself.

  

  Tanith Lee
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