Lisa Jewell Quotes

The older I get, the more I love psychological thrillers.

Lisa Jewell

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• As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • City

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • You
  • Wife
  • Honey

• By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Character
  • You
  • Kind

• I am the kind of person who is happy to be doing work. When I miss a 'Brahmotsavam' or an 'Autonagar Surya', I feel bad for a day, and that's all. I don't want to name the films I have missed, but it's true that those which I missed didn't do well.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Bad
  • True

• I currently spend a lot of time thinking about orchestration and every detail of a piece.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Detail

• Family is always first. Even though my kids are older - my son is 25 and my daughter is 21 - I still like to sit down and have dinner with them as much as I can.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Son

• A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Hand
  • Pure
  • Brainy

• More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• 'Don Quixote' is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerrilla fighters, to inspire people, to convince them that they themselves can become quixotic. George Washington had a copy of the book on his desk when signing the U.S. Constitution.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • Book
  • Political

• So many ways to be deemed unclean

  

  Frances Bean Cobain

• All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• On the fifth day following the murder of the ship's officers, land was sighted by the lookout. Whether island or mainland, Black Michael did not know, but he announced to Clayton that if investigation showed that the place was habitable he and Lady Greystoke were to be put ashore with their belongings.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Black

• A soul without reflection, like a pileWithout inhabitant, to ruin runs.

  

  Edward Young
  • Soul
  • Reflection

• While most people... were seeking to modify the principles of either relativity or quantum theory, we surprised ourselves (and many other people) by succeeding in putting them together without modifying their principles.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • People
  • Together

• In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Society
  • Learning
  • Communication

• I feel like I'm a pop star without being a diva.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Star

• My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to Broadway and a friend of mine, Lauren Bacall, was in Hollywood filming with Humphrey Bogart. She told one of her producers I was great in my play, and he saw it and cast me in 'The Strange Love of Martha Ivers'.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Great
  • She
  • Job

• I've had days here and there where I would get discouraged because I wasn't a big star, but I've made a living ever since I was 27. Not a great living, but enough for me. I think actually being able to pay my rent and eat and perform is enough, and I did that for many years. Then I had some good years in there, too, where I made pretty good money.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Good
  • Great
  • Money

• Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Charity

• For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different.

  

  Aleksa Palladino
  • Different
  • Writing

• To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Bad
  • Knowledge

• The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Hope
  • Utility
  • Delusions

• The older I get, the more I love psychological thrillers.

  

  Lisa Jewell