A. S. Byatt Quotes

There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.

A. S. Byatt

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• I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Think
  • Always
  • Film

• I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Diet
  • Constantly
  • Strict

• Because these kids get away from their parents, and they binge drink until they are sick. Dozens of them are going to the hospital, and some of them dying. This is a problem, a big problem that needs to be addressed, and we need accurate information.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Problem

• For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Most
  • Page
  • Twitter

• I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Why

• There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Hurt

• I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Time
  • Exit
  • Kicked

• But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Stop

• I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Connection
  • Same

• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• I was kind of lost for several years.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Lost
  • Kind
  • Years

• I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Society

• I keep returning to the combination of artichoke, broad beans and lemon. The freshness of young beans and the lemon juice 'lifts' the artichoke and balances its hearty nature.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Nature
  • Young
  • Juice

• A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Characters
  • Heroes
  • Lot

• The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Think
  • Best
  • Politics

• I still try to be a feminist in some tiny way.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Way
  • Try
  • Feminist

• Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • World
  • Man

• I won't sing if I don't feel it, so there's always so much sadness and so much sentiment behind it all.

  

  La India
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Sadness

• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • True
  • Problems
  • Revenge

• I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Way
  • Person
  • Feel

• Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Music
  • Want

• I didn't want to write a 'this is how it is' Iraq book, because the Iraq War is an intensely complicated variety of things.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Book
  • War

• For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed about the character and will of God. There can be nothing in the heart that is not first in the mind. Though it is possible to have theology on the head without its piercing the soul, it cannot pierce the soul without first being grasped by the mind.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.

  

  A. S. Byatt