Anita Brookner Quotes

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Long
  • You
  • Demon

• And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Night
  • U.S.
  • Between

• Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

  

  Hal Borland
  • High
  • Night
  • Summer

• Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Live
  • High

• But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • High
  • Yourself
  • Expectations

• There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Up
  • High
  • Feel

• I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Court

• As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Trying
  • Art
  • High

• I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Night
  • Team
  • Player

• My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Music
  • High

• It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Long
  • Effort
  • Determination

• I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work.

  

  Mojo Nixon
  • Night
  • Problem
  • Shows

• I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

  

  Mark Mothersbaugh
  • Time
  • Pretty

• When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Mom
  • Always
  • Trouble

• Finger pointing never got anything done!

  

  David Pratt
  • Done

• The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff indicating her body, this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Death
  • Free
  • Rest

• 'Women have come a long way, of course: we can all be left alone at night now. But sometimes it seems a high price to pay. We can also open the door cheerfully to strangers at any hour, deal with obscene telephone calls and mend fuses.'

  Anita Brookner
  • Long
  • Women
  • High