Lionel Shriver Quotes

We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.

Lionel Shriver

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• I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • American
  • Years
  • Three

• If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Become
  • Fact
  • Correct

• My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • God
  • Know
  • Wealth

• If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Power
  • Free
  • Blind

• I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Think
  • Period
  • Model

• There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Power
  • U.S.
  • Limitation

• I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Dog
  • England
  • Go

• When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Week
  • Fame

• It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Faith
  • Knowing
  • Commit

• Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Doing
  • Understand
  • Only

• Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Miniature golf, like billiards, is a game of angles. And, like billiards, most of the fun is in pretending you know what the hell you're doing. The worse you do, the more you have to laugh.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Golf

• When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • Small
  • Resistance

• Crede mihi, bene qui latuit bene vixit, et intraFortunam debet quisque manere suam.

  

  Ovid

• 'It's a little Anxious,' he said to himself, 'to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water.'

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Small
  • Water
  • Animal

• The Self is only one. Do you feel hurt if you blame yourself or scorn yourself for your errors? If you hold the Self there is no second person to scorn you. When you see the world you have lost hold of the Self. On the contrary, hold the Self and the world will not appear.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Lost
  • Hurt

• The colors...oh, I see the most fantastic things. Do you realize when people just close their eyes what they see? It's unbelievable. Colors and things, forms of every sort. I wonder if that happens for everybody?

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • Eyes
  • Wonder

• I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell,I’m not the man to insist on asphodel.This sounds like a He-fellow, don’t you think?It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

  

  Edith Sitwell

• Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes

• I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very serious round of dramatic training, and I like action films that take their characters seriously, so I figure I'm making it the best of both worlds if I try to bring some serious acting to a shoot-'em-up picture.

  

  Brandon Lee
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• When I was doing 'Britain's Got Talent,' I really enjoyed it, but I found it very difficult to be in the audience. I like to be on stage; I feel safer on stage because I'm in control.

  

  David Hasselhoff
  • Control

• Harry Belafonte hit me to the Dream Defenders and I liked what they were about. When I asked them how I could help their movement, they said, "You can help by coming down here; you can tweet."

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Dream
  • Helping
  • Tweet

• 'Spin City' was a really wonderful time for me. I made friends for life on that show. I made friends with Richard Kind, Michael Boatman, Barry Bostwick, Sandy Chaplin. We're all close. It was a really wonderful time.

  

  Alan Ruck
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friends

• We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.

  

  Lionel Shriver