Doris Lessing Quotes

Pearls mean tears.

Doris Lessing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TearsMeanPearls

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

Jo Stafford

ArtConfusedSongwritingPerforming

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

John Oliver

WarSomeoneYouNothingBravery

If you want an active schedule, you have to husband your time so you can act on the things that are important.

Robert Pozen

TimeHusbandYouImportantWantAct

What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

SalaryNeedDirectorEverythingGive

One of the fastest things a fruit fly does is take information from its eyes and react accordingly.

Michael Dickinson

EyesFruitFlyInformationReact

The reason I'm an actor and am trying to make my way in drama is to move people, to affect people, to gain a response - so these people who come up to you in the street are your audience.

Rob James-Collier

PeopleTryingYouDramaStreetWay

I would just watch the animals, and their stories would roll out when I wrote.

Jean Craighead George

AnimalsOutWatchRollJustWould

Everybody has the Tupac that they admire. Certain people love the hip-hop person, the rapper. Strictly just the rapper. A lot of people, the newfound Tupac fans... they're into Death Row-era Tupac. But that was only nine months!

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

LoveDeathPeoplePersonHip-Hop

The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teaching, mental and moral instructors and exemplars of our times.

Dorothea Dix

GreatMoralMentalEducatorsOur

There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave.

Christian Slater

TimeRideMeWaveYouKnow

You have to go to war with a sword and a shield. You cannot go to war with bare hands.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

WarHandsYouSwordGoCannot

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

Wynton Marsalis

EducationDisciplineHabitDoingYou

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