Ben Dolnick Quotes
Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You'd be holding an eclectic bunch.
Quotes to Explore
-
Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
-
Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
-
Women are not all single-issue voters.
-
Bad ballplayers make good managers.
-
National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
-
Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
-
The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.
-
I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
-
She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
-
When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
-
Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
-
Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
-
Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
-
If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
-
I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
-
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
-
I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
-
I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
-
If you never did You should. These things are fun. and Fun is good.'
-
All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions.
-
In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
-
Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formula. I don't want to be considered a current country artist.
-
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.
-
Penelope Fitzgerald's nine novels are thin enough that if you were so inclined, you could take her entire literary output down from the shelf with a single stretched hand. You'd be holding an eclectic bunch.
