Sue Townsend Quotes

My cream and black Aga. It is the heart of the house, and people congregate around it.

Sue Townsend

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 2, 1946 - April 10, 2014

Topics

HeartPeopleBlackHouseCream

The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.

John Burnside

WisdomWoodsForestMysteryYouOwn

Airships could be part of the answer to Africa's infrastructure woes - if the financial challenges are overcome.

Jens Martin Skibsted

ChallengesFinancialAfricaOvercome

I waged war against my feelings.

John James Audubon

WarFeelingsAgainstWaged

There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.

Amandla Stenberg

LifePowerIdeasReadingThinkYou

It turns out you can train a neural network on a big body of text. It can be Wikipedia; it can be all the works of Charles Dickens; it could be all of the Internet. They can use grammar and put words together in interesting and convincing ways - and, I think, unexpected and beautiful ways.

Robin Sloan

BeautifulTogetherWordsThinkBody

There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on anything but human activity. They are like those who, having been diagnosed with diabetes, eat donuts for breakfast. There's not much to do about them.

Michael Specter

DayPeopleBreakfastBlameDiabetes

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Diogenes

ContentWhoMostHeLeast

I randomly took an acting class in undergrad and was reading a monologue from 'Lemon Sky' by Lanford Wilson, and I felt such a connection to the material and then to the audience as I was doing it. This electric current ran through the author, me and the audience, and I felt connected in a way that rarely happens. I was hooked.

Conrad Ricamora

SkyMeReadingDoingActingWay

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

GoodLiveLongAverageCatMust

I love to listen to Howard Stern with the guy who drives me.

Mark Feuerstein

LoveMeListenGuyWhoStern

I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts.

Leo Howard

DoingDoneArtsKindsDifferent

I've always been the type to fall in love fast and, with every boyfriend, I plan out my wedding in my head.

Kim Kardashian

LoveWeddingPlanFallFastHead

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