Michelle Paver Quotes

Why do so many children love the idea of being snowed in or shipwrecked, of having to survive on one's own? When I was a child, I was no exception. I wanted to hunt with a bow and arrow like the Stone Age people: to skin deer and build my own shelter. And I desperately wanted a wolf. As we lived in London, my options were limited.

Michelle Paver

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 7, 1960

Topics

LoveAgeChildrenChildPeopleWolf

I think it's perfectly acceptable not to run with cliques.

Megan Fox

ThinkRunI ThinkCliquesAcceptable

To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.

Matt Taibbi

BusinessEnergyWallStreetOilUp

Everybody has a lot of darkness in them because without that you're not a whole person.

Tom Noonan

DarknessYouPersonWithoutWhole

The three of us pitched in $15,000 a piece to get it started.

Marvin Davis

ThreeStartedUsGetPiece

I've probably put up with more criticism than a lot of people out there. At the end of the day, you block out everything, especially with your personal life.

Lleyton Hewitt

LifeDayPeopleCriticismEndYou

I see a lot of young guys going back to the suit, but they're doing it in a way that's less of a uniform.

Joseph Abboud

DoingBackUniformYoungWaySee

Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.

Clayton M. Christensen

SmartEndIgnoreRightEverything

You've got to invest your own time, invest your own resources into creating a better world, not only for yourself but for the people you surround yourself with.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

TimeYourselfSurround YourselfWorld

If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.

Paul Watson

YouGoWantGoingCourtDealing

It's definitely a tough blow to your morale to get fired.

Nina Jacobson

ToughMoraleFiredGetYourBlow

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

Marilynne Robinson

PeopleWritingFeelYouCreateKnow

When I heard my first rap song and figured out what that was, I kind've stuck to it. I always wanted to be a musician in general, an entertainer. I just started rapping. I never decided, 'Oh, I want to be a rapper.'

Kyle

SongWantNeverFirstRapperOut

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