Doris Lessing Quotes

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

Doris Lessing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatPeopleTreatImportantMatters

I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.

Angela Sarafyan

DayDancePoetryLookingLongYou

Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.

Steve Erickson

HateMenLovedPresidentAlwaysTV

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.

Steven Wright

BabyThinkingHellI CanKnowNeed

Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.

Rod Blagojevich

EnergyBeingHomelandOurMeans

I was a terrible science student, so I could never be a scientist; my mind doesn't work that way. But I've learned to love the stories around science, and I have so much respect and fascination for the people who can make discoveries and find applications. There's a lot of drama there.

Ron Howard

WorkLoveScienceRespectMindFind

When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.

Mike Rutherford

StrongLostDoneHimStageLeft

Usually, new producers and writers want to put their stamp on a show. They don't want to continue what's working. They want to reinvent the wheel. It's an ego thing.

Anthony Geary

EgoNewWantWheelReinventWorking

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

Anthony Horowitz

WritingMagicYouSomethingExist

The U.S. might have diminished al-Qaeda's capabilities in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has not diminished the threat from radical Islamist terrorists as a whole.

Pete Hoekstra

BorderAfghanistanWholeRadical

Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents who will stay together and bring them up.

Mariella Frostrup

HomeTogetherBrokenParentsWill

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

Mark Twain

OpportunitySeeAbleSeldomUntil

It's hard to get hot over a painting; there's no equivalent for teenage obsessiveness. Art obsession is ideology. Ideology can be made sexy, but it's easier in music.

Kim Gordon

MusicArtPaintingSexyHotHard

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