Ann Cleeves Quotes

I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts!

Ann Cleeves

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• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Try

• I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Women
  • Free

• The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.

  

  Hans Berger
  • First
  • Order
  • Waves

• As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Long
  • Know

• Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• The glass is always half full: I have no time for anything negative - and actually, I've bought crystals for all my team, so they all carry crystals as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Team
  • Negative

• You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Kids
  • You
  • Allergic

• The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Game
  • Travel
  • Blind

• It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Film
  • Picture

• I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • High
  • Crazy
  • Myself

• I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Teachers
  • Substitute
  • Authorized

• I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Music
  • Best
  • Singer

• All things are the same,-familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Endurance

• Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, who suffered death because she chose to turn.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Heart
  • She
  • Death

• I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Pretty
  • Small
  • Fashion

• These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

  

  Emily Greene Balch
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Blow

• I think that when you get right down to it, people do evolve on different issues. And, you know, I'm pro-life. And I was begrudgingly the other way.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Time

• My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • True
  • Dad
  • Fine

• And as for Ken, Mayor Livingstone, I think you have been a very considerable public servant and a distinguished leader of this city.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • City

• And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer.Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer.Lead us lest too far we wander.Love's sweet voice is calling yonder.

  

  Johnny Mercer
  • Sweet
  • Shine

• Life is too precious to be left to chance

  

  Walter Moers
  • Chance
  • Precious

• I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts!

  

  Ann Cleeves