A. S. Byatt Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
-
Our message of a balanced budget amendment, term limits to end career politicians, and a real plan to keep America safe is resonating with voters.
-
New York is my home.
-
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
-
A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
-
It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
-
In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
-
When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
-
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
-
I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
-
If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
-
People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
-
We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
-
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
-
I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
-
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
-
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
-
We don't grow older, we grow riper.
-
Both teams are making mistakes. Florida's making these itsy-bitsy little ones, and Tennessee is making huge, gigantic mistakes.
-
I went my whole life without winning anything and now all of a sudden after years of hard work my dreams were coming true all at once and I didn’t know how to deal with it. It felt like the world was changing its relationship with me but I had stayed the same.
-
It's often meaningless to talk about a genetic trait without also discussing the environment in which that trait appears. Sometimes, genes don't work at all until the environment awakens them.
-
Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
-
I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
