Lydia Davis Quotes

I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.

Lydia Davis

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• The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Exercise

• I am not too intelligent.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Intelligent

• I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Women
  • May

• Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • School
  • High
  • College

• Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Grass

• I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Believe
  • Color
  • Human

• We do not need the empire to give us anything.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Need
  • Give
  • Empire

• Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Never
  • Boring
  • Pull

• Women have to control their fertility for 30 years. Thirty years is a long time not to make mistakes.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Success
  • Doing
  • Achieve

• I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Me
  • Find
  • Warmth

• When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Guy
  • Interesting
  • Challenge

• My feet are always on the ground. My family and friends make sure I stay there.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Feet

• 'Is it the regency you want, or me?''The regency. You, sweetheart, are the worthless dross that comes with it.'

  

  Tanith Lee

• If we are to inspire men to father it also helps to stop reflexively condemning men as afraid of commitment and address what they are afraid of. –page246.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Father
  • Stop

• We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Perfect

• 'Thanks be to God,' says the Admiral; 'the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.'

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • God
  • Air
  • Thanks

• A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Long

• The first day was memorable for me. I walked into this studio with these giant eyes, slowly met everybody and got to see the story boards and sketches of our characters. I got the see the sets and was just amazed that all this was to be something we all were going to be part of for almost a year.

  

  Kyle Schmid
  • Eyes

• Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.

  

  James Salter

• I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Needs
  • Young
  • Selfish

• To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

  

  William Mountford
  • Giving
  • Sometimes
  • Communication

• I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.

  

  Lydia Davis