A. S. Byatt Quotes

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.

A. S. Byatt

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• Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Succeed
  • Russian

• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Worship

• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Nothing

• While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Focus

• I've always had an addictive nature.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Addictive

• I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Blues

• Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.

  

  Carl Orff
  • Time
  • Children
  • Heart

• I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Confused

• The main cause of Europe's deep fall - the losses of inclusion, job satisfaction and wage growth - is the devastating slowdown of productivity that began in the late 1990s and struck large swaths of the continent. It holds down the growth of wages rates, and it depresses employment.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Job
  • Fall
  • Deep

• Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Book
  • Rather
  • Million

• My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Home
  • Black
  • Light

• Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • School
  • High
  • Football

• At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • House
  • Air
  • Old

• Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Help
  • Energy
  • Change

• In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Romantic
  • Young
  • Married

• I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Want
  • Military
  • Texas

• Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • Money
  • Trust

• And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Trouble
  • Self
  • Whole

• And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

  

  Kevin Kelly
  • Thinking
  • Interesting
  • Decision

• At the end of a marathon, it's going to hurt whether you're speeding up or slowing down. You may as well push.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Up
  • May
  • Hurt

• The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live