Lisa Jewell Quotes

I write in cafes, never at home. I cannot focus at home, am forever getting off my chair to do other things. In a cafe, I have to sit still, or I'll look a bit unhinged.

Lisa Jewell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 19, 1968

Topics

HomeFocusChairLookNeverWrite

When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.

Joe Morgan

Growing UpReachYouDreamGrowing

It is important to me that what Poe has to say gets across to people. I want to give people the feeling that I get from all this. I think that we are succeeding. The feedback is very warm.

John Astin

PeopleMeThinkWarmFeedbackWant

Since 1981, I've spent every Thanksgiving Day broadcasting a game, and it is one of my favorite days. You can say, 'Woe is me, I never get to be part of the tradition,' or you can say, 'Heck, we've got our own tradition, and it's pretty good.'

John Madden

GoodDayMeGameTraditionYou

I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it.

John McCain

BelieveThinkInformationKnowWill

There are many things I do where the centre of it is... It's almost more my humanitarian work than art.

Angelina Jolie

WorkArtMoreThingsWhereAlmost

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

Steven Pinker

ReflectGenesEvenMostTabooCases

I always had the dream that, once I became No 1 in the world, that if I had a child I hoped I would have it early enough so the child can see me playing.

Roger Federer

ChildMeWorldEnoughEarlyDream

If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.

Jules Verne

StarsManExistenceProvidence

The more traditional fuel sources we have relied on as a nation - coal, oil, and natural gas - I'm hoping they can allow us the financial springboard to move to the next generation of energy sources: renewables and alternatives.

Lisa Murkowski

EnergyFinancialGenerationOilMore

I travel with Club Glove.

Jason Day

TravelClubGlove

I like to branch out as much as I can, but I feel like the movies that are closest to my heart are 'The Wackness' and '50/50' - the ones that are dramedies that have that human element to them.

Jonathan Levine

HeartFeelI CanMoviesHumanOut

I grew up in the 1950s at the beginning of rock n' roll, and would strum a tennis racket in front of the mirror.

Jonathan Pryce

MirrorBeginningRockTennisUp

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