Lisa Jewell Quotes

I never had one of those glorious young bodies that make older men and women weep. So I don't tend to look back with nostalgia or yearn for what I've lost. Because it was never all that.

Lisa Jewell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WomenMenLookBackNostalgiaYoung

No one purposefully paints a bad painting. It's someone who's trying to do a good painting, but it's terrible. I have one with a matador, and the bull is going through the blanket. You can tell the painter didn't know how to paint it.

Jennifer Coolidge

GoodPaintingSomeoneYouBadKnow

And in reality, I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.

Maximilian Schell

LifeSuccessFailureTimeThinkShe

My dream is to have a gay son.

Amanda Holden

SonDreamGay

I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.

Steve Albini

GoodCookingKindWhateverCook

I think what's beautiful when you're looking at artists like Macklemore and you're looking at artists like Ayron Jones, they're proud of Seattle and they're bringing it back. Seattle's a real music town. When you act ashamed of that, you should be pushed outta the game as far as I'm concerned.

Sir Mix-a-Lot

MusicBeautifulLookingGameProud

Art is competitive.

Robert Duvall

ArtCompetitive

I talk to children in schools all over the world, and I've found that both boys and girls are fascinated by how hunter-gatherers manage to survive entirely on what's around them in their environment: trees, rocks, animals and plants.

Michelle Paver

ChildrenPlantsWorldSurviveTrees

Big ups to him, big ups to Future. I actually like Future's music. I like his music, you feel me. I'm not a hater or a critic on him, you know, I do me. God bless him, God bless me.

Desiigner

FutureMusicGodMeFeelYou

There's a lot of stuff out there that government shouldn't do.

Chuck Fleischmann

GovernmentOutStuffLot

I listen to everything from The Cure and The Clash to Prince and George Clinton.

Boots Riley

ListenEverythingPrinceCureClash

I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth.

Antonin Scalia

TruthYouWantWhyGlobal Warming

The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

William Hazlitt

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