Doris Lessing Quotes

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Doris Lessing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013

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My granny would come out and stay with us in the winter, and we would listen to the reports from the coastal stations and have a discussion in the middle of Glasgow about what the weather was like in Tiree.

Johann Lamont

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I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

Maya Angelou

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Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

Stanley Hauerwas

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I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.

Stockard Channing

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There is no greater glory than love, nor any greater punishment than jealousy.

Lope de Vega

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Swimming can be boring. To me, it's like going on a treadmill.

Jason Momoa

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I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

Dick Dale

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From day one, The Shield was a vehicle. It wasn't, 'This is what we're doing for the rest of our lives.' It was, 'This is the vehicle we'll use to bust into WWE, to ride to the top of it, and then we fight each other.' That was always the plan.

Dean Ambrose

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When I was picked to fly the X-1, it was my duty to fly it, and I did.

Chuck Yeager

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The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

Bob Newhart

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The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

Arthur Keith

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By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

Peter Ustinov

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