Alice Sebold Quotes

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

Alice Sebold

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• I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Up
  • Time
  • Age

• Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Good
  • Done
  • House

• Everybody grows but me.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Me
  • Grows
  • Everybody

• I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Universe
  • Story
  • Over

• Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Alive
  • Journalist

• Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Family
  • Art
  • Education

• Documentaries are a powerful and effective way of bridging the gap between worlds, breaking through to new audiences that wouldn't otherwise be engaged - in essence, not preaching to the choir.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Way
  • Powerful
  • Choir

• I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good.

  

  Hal Price
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
  • Science
  • Psychology

• That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Different
  • Character
  • Moral

• Take it back Oh, take it back I don't want your lovin', anymore Let me live Oh, let me live It's not you who I sing for

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Live

• I don't like David Blaine, he is the ultimate git wizard.

  

  Marcus Brigstocke

• Mr. Darwin begs me to say that he receives so many letters that he cannot answer them all. He considers that the theory of evolution is quite compatible with the belief in a God; but that you must remember that different persons have different definitions of what they mean by God.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • God
  • Different
  • Remember

• Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Success
  • Focus
  • Complacency

• I have seen motions of the air so furious that they have carried, mixed up in their course, the largest trees of the forest and whole roofs of great palaces, and I have seen the same fury bore a hole with a whirling movement digging out a gravel pit, and carrying gravel, sand and water more than half a mile through the air.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Up
  • Great
  • Water

• There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I’d like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O’Reilly’s macaques, which have to have more sense.

  

  Connie Willis
  • Moments

• I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• Certainly I was a bully. I'm not ashamed of it at all. The hostility of the establishment to what you were able to do in the Forties and Fifties was very strong. Sometimes you have to fight against your society.

  

  Pierre Boulez
  • Society
  • Strong

• Funny how so many rookies out there still judge condition of the US economy on the rigged "stock market". I frankly find it hilarious.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Judge
  • Economy
  • Stock Market

• “We never cared about what people expected. I always imagined if one day we would go onstage again, people would think: ‘No, this isn’t Can. This is another group – we are in the wrong place.

  

  Irmin Schmidt Can
  • Place
  • Group
  • Expected

• My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • May
  • Light
  • Voice

• '... You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Hope

• I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

  

  Alice Sebold