Lionel Shriver Quotes

In economics, 'competitiveness' does not describe Barack Obama's insistence on not only being president of the U.S. but also beating his staff at bowling.

Lionel Shriver

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• Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Life
  • Like
  • Winning

• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Class
  • Conservative

• Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Help
  • Small
  • Change

• With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Long
  • Relationship
  • Period

• I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Play
  • Knew
  • Villain

• Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Born
  • Just
  • Glitter

• I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Collaboration
  • Getting

• I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Television

• This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting character. I think that once people put their guard down and their preconceived notions of what the show is supposed to be and just allowed it to really be good science fiction.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Music
  • Color
  • Harmony

• Authors are influenced by everything they've ever read. If you've read widely enough, it helps you create your own mix.

  

  Garth Nix
  • You
  • Enough
  • Everything

• Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Success
  • Sacrifice
  • Liberty

• I go to the club and can dance a little. I'm known to get down.

  

  Malcolm David Kelley
  • Dance
  • Down
  • Club

• A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

  

  Samuel McChord Crothers
  • Writing
  • Tired
  • Poet

• Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody, I have some money 'cause I just got paid. How I wish I had someone to talk to, I'm in an awful way.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • Money
  • Night
  • Wish

• Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual excitement.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life

• Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.

  

  Chick Hearn
  • Fool

• Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

  

  John Milius

• The reality is simple: every country struggles with madmen and ideologues with guns, and every country-Canada, Norway, Britain-has had a gun massacre once, or twice. Then people act to stop them, and they do-as over the past few years has happened in Australia. Only in America are gun massacres of this kind routine, expectable, and certain to continue.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• She was tired of hugging pillows, counting on blankets for warmth, and reliving romantic moments only in her dreams. She was tired of hoping that every day would hurry so she could get on to the next. Hoping that it would be a better day, an easier day. But it never was. Worked, paid the bills, and went to bed but never slept. Each morning the weight on her shoulders got heavier and heavier and each morning she wished for night to fall quickly so she could return to her bed to hug her pillows and wrap herself in the warmth of her blankets.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Bed
  • Bills
  • Counting

• When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

  

  Beryl Bainbridge
  • Children
  • Picture

• In economics, 'competitiveness' does not describe Barack Obama's insistence on not only being president of the U.S. but also beating his staff at bowling.

  

  Lionel Shriver