Anita Brookner Quotes

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• Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Win

• Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Idea
  • Boxing
  • Ring

• I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.

  

  Zola Budd
  • Never
  • Regret
  • Will

• They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.

  

  Ma Rainey
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Better

• Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Violence

• I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Energy
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• I look back on the last 10 years and I have to say I'm proud of what I have accomplished, because I've been able to raise two beautiful children.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Proud

• I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Presence

• I know when I get down and discouraged, it's hard for me to be able to just see anything except for right where I am.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • See
  • Hard
  • Discouraged

• I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Giving
  • Trust
  • Woman

• I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • You
  • Me
  • Like

• I'm training once a day, four days a week, and just loving life.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Life
  • Day
  • Training

• He left the name at which the world grew pale,To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Moral

• The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Life
  • Live
  • Die

• Du sollst dir kein Ideal machen, weder eines Engels im Himmel, noch eines Helden aus einem Gedicht oder Roman, noch eines selbstgeträumten oder fantasirten; sondern du sollst einen Mann lieben, wie er ist.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• 'Eh bien, Mademoiselle, all through my life I have observed one thing - 'All one wants one gets!' Who knows?' His face screwed itself up comically. 'You may get more than you bargain for.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Life
  • Up
  • May

• Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I'll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Time
  • May
  • Hand

• The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.

  

  Don Ameche
  • Personality

• After describing a hopper for feeding winter game: If you think you're too old to enjoy building such contraptions - that only Boy Scouts get a kick out of such nonsense - just try it. You may end up by building several.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Up
  • May
  • Game

• I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.

  

  Jane Green
  • Money
  • Business
  • Book

• My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.

  

  Michael Smith
  • House
  • Holiday
  • Smith

• We have to care about our bodies and what we put in them. Women have to take the time to focus on our mental health-take time for self, for the spiritual, without feeling guilty or selfish. The world will see you the way you see you, and treat you the way you treat yourself.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.

  Anita Brookner
  • Selfish