Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: June 13, 1893 - December 17, 1957

Topics

PassionTryingYouOwnAtmosphere

All lives have an equal value.

Melinda Gates

ValueEqualLives

I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous communicative skills and she's got government experience. The thing that drives me slightly crazy is the way we think about intellectuals as wooly, hopeless, arrogant, self-deceived, incapable.

Michael Ignatieff

ExperienceGovernmentMeCrazyThink

You never know how your kids are going to turn out. You can raise them with all the best intentions, and then they're own people, and they have their own inner conflicts. You just hope you've given them some good stuff to navigate with.

Amanda de Cadenet

GoodHopeBestPeopleYouKnow

I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new governments are still clumsy and awkward in responding to this new environment in which they operate. The only thing in their DNA is the old regime.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

ExperienceEnvironmentNewSometimes

I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie.

Robin Williams

PeopleThinkDoingDeadMoreGet

I knew that if I could create a quality product and find the proper retail outlets, it would be a great company.

Rohan Marley

GreatQualityFindCreateCompany

The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.

Mary Gaitskill

PowerImaginationIdentityLongRoom

You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.

Jason Clarke

GoodWomenSoulThinkMysteryYou

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

Don Miguel Ruiz

TruthKnowledgeMemoryStopNever

I don't think we would still be here if we hadn't gone public.

David Talbot

ThinkGoneHereWouldStillPublic

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Christopher Hitchens

LifeWomenHappyDrivingMy Life

I want broadband to grow, more mobile devices available, particularly in underprivileged communities. I want STEM education to go ahead and fund the next generation of engineers.

Chris Sacca

EducationGenerationGrowEngineers

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