Sophie Hannah Quotes

In West Yorkshire, I'd have to drive three quarters of an hour to go shopping.

Sophie Hannah

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: 1971

Topics

ShoppingDriveGoThreeWestHour

This is what Steve Jobs understood: Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product but by the worst thing.

Robert Scoble

BestProductWorstUnderstoodThing

Drawing must seek interest, not admiration. Because admiration wears quickly.

John Howe

DrawingSeekAdmirationInterest

Magazines are about trust and partnership: We, the editors, will strive always to keep you engaged; you, the readers, are free to engage with us or to reject us.

Stefano Tonchi

TrustFreePartnershipYouStrive

One's homesickness for Heaven finds at least an inn there; and it's an inn on the right road.

Ruth Pitter

RoadHeavenRightHomesicknessLeast

The best piece of advice my father gave me was to always work hard. One thing he instilled: Proper preparation prevents poor performances.

Michelle Carter

WorkFatherBestPreparationMe

You know, in China, they say, come on over, we'll build the plant for you. Of course, then they steal your patents, but the reality is that they are aggressively trying to take our jobs. Every other country is. They know that to have a middle class, you have to make things.

Debbie Stabenow

RealityPlantTryingYouCountry

If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

Chauncey Wright

ScienceExperienceResearchDirection

I have a statement on the Social Security. A lot of people approaching that age have either already retired on pensions or have made irreversible plans to retire very soon... I consider it a breach of faith to renege on that promise. It is a rotten thing to do.

Thomas P. O'Neill

AgeFaithPeopleSecurityPlans

Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.

Marie de France

LoveSpeakNameFirstOutFive

I don't have an exact moment when I decided I wanted to be an actress - it kind of was just really a part of my growing up.

Lily James

MomentGrowing UpGrowingKindUp

I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.

Lesley Ann Warren

ManWorldEnoughComeFarStill

When I first came to Columbia University, I was dirt poor. I did not choose to come here - I just ended up here because I had nowhere else to go, having just escaped from China after Tiananmen. I was in a new country where I didn't understand the language, didn't know anybody, and didn't have a penny to my name. So I was desperate and afraid.

Li Lu

NameLanguagePennyChooseCountry

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