Lionel Shriver Quotes

Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.

Lionel Shriver

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• You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Important
  • Money
  • Success

• I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • World
  • Today
  • Light

• If I'm in work mode and going to meetings, I'll make an effort and dress up, but when I'm at home or just chilling, I'm in beanies and jeans and sneakers.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Home

• At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Night
  • Dressing
  • Outfit

• Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Jump

• I think all these pop cultural media often reflect conversations we're having in the real world at that moment in time. I think one of the big conversations we're having as a culture is we thought we'd solved sexism and racism, and we're realizing more and more that we haven't.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Golf

• Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Movie
  • House
  • Day

• I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Up
  • Music
  • Soul

• Art was what I originally started out to do and music came second at first. I had a year at art college but I left because it was too much like school. I give all my paintings away to people I like.

  

  Cat Stevens
  • People
  • Music
  • School

• You gotta have a swine to show you where the truffles are.

  

  Edward Albee

• Just like you need to strengthen your core physically with exercise, you also need to strength your core spiritually.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Exercise

• When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Depression

• I drank too much, only champagne.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Champagne

• I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen

• My mom was always very, very careful with my mind: what I saw and didn't see.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • Mind
  • Mom

• I would snack on crisps and chocolate and my meals weren't the best. I ate lots of steak with creamy sauces, chips and peas, washed down with wine and a pudding.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • Wine
  • Chocolate

• The thing about going back to El Paso, it's overwhelming sometimes. I look at the support that I get and the success that I've had, and I can't walk anywhere without being spotted. My hair might be the biggest crime in this situation.

  

  Khalid
  • Success
  • Support
  • Hair

• The four most expensive words in the English language are 'this time it’s different.'

  

  John Templeton
  • Time
  • Different
  • Words

• Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me ... that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.

  

  Butch Hancock
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Sex

• Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • Up
  • Special
  • Everyone

• Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum - the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Life
  • Question
  • Creativity

• Bullying can be physical, verbal or emotional. Words and threats are just as painful as fists, especially with social media these days. For those of you who don't know, I was actually bullied as a young boy on one occasion.

  

  Derek Hough
  • Words
  • Boy
  • Emotional

• Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Bullying