Lionel Shriver Quotes

Hypersensitivity has become a weapon.

Lionel Shriver

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• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Future

• Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Band
  • Go
  • Debate

• I'm so secluded. Very alone.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Alone
  • Very
  • Secluded

• I'm not a big sports fan.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Sports
  • Fan
  • Big

• As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Question
  • Choice
  • Learned

• I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

  

  Lanford Wilson
  • Obsessed
  • Atom Bomb

• Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Women
  • Money
  • Why

• In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Run

• I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Memories

• The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Dying
  • Tell

• Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Birth

• You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Dance
  • Same
  • Lake

• I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Science

• You don't just leave Los Angeles. Such a departure requires magical intervention. You can't simply purchase a ticket to another destination. You must disappear.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Destination
  • Los Angeles

• I shall find antiquity a rewarding study, if only because, while I am absorbed in it, I shall be able to turn my eyes from the troubles which for so long have tormented the modern world.

  

  Livy
  • World
  • Long
  • Eyes

• You know what, I'm happy to say that everything outside of 'Dexter' feels like a vacation, and I don't mean to say anything negative about the show. It's just a different kind of work. Emotionally it's taxing and complicated, and that's a great thing.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Work
  • Great
  • Different

• There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear.

  

  James Balog
  • Time
  • Great
  • Heart

• What we are doing is, rather than living on the interest of our basic biological capital, we're using up our capital, so we're dipping into our capital. We're using up what should be our children's and grandchildren's legacy.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Up
  • Children
  • Legacy

• Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
  • Vote
  • Failed
  • Reforms

• I think I've been brought up very well by both my parents. I am very cautious and I think I'm now fit for the world I'm in. They're very much behind my modelling and very supportive.

  

  Lily Collins
  • Up
  • World
  • Parents

• Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature, and has regard to the course of nature as a whole, he can do nothing.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Nature

• I grew up listening to 2 Live Crew and NWA and I never went out and shot nobody.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Listening
  • Grew
  • Crew

• Hypersensitivity has become a weapon.

  

  Lionel Shriver