Margaret Atwood Quotes
Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.
Quotes to Explore
-
The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
-
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
-
I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
-
I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
-
My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
-
My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
-
I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
-
My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
-
I've always been very tied to language.
-
At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
-
My faith makes me willing to do things that may look like there's going to be a lot of physical difficulty. And you just go ahead and do it because you truly believe it's the right thing to do.
-
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
-
The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
-
I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.
-
You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.
-
Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.
-
Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
-
I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.
-
The little girl's creative, a repertoire that rings, And Hollywood is waiting, to see the way she swings. She'll be graduating, goin' on to higher things, The little girl from Central is gonna take on wings.
-
I have always done what I wanted to do.
-
Therefore, why not plastic forms in motion?. ..one can compose motions.
-
I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.
-
I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.
-
Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.
