Lionel Shriver Quotes
I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.
Quotes to Explore
-
I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
-
The migration wave can be stopped.
-
Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
-
Creating things sometimes is difficult.
-
I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
-
I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
-
I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
-
I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
-
It's a comforting thought to know that I've got my partner by my side walking through life and all the ups and the downs. I know we can handle it. There's nothing too big or too crazy that's going to tear us apart.
-
I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
-
The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
-
As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
-
Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
-
Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
-
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
-
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
-
I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
-
Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
-
No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.
-
Church on time, makes me party.
-
People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
-
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
-
I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.
-
I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.
