Susan Hill Quotes

I wrote ghost stories because I'd always enjoyed reading them, and they seemed to be fizzling out... I don't take them terribly seriously. It's like a cake, with ingredients.

Susan Hill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 5, 1942

Topics

CakeReadingSeriouslyAlwaysOut

I am very honored for all the distinctions and accolades, but what I am most sensitive to is my clientele and the fact they are pleased with my food and my restaurants.

Joel Robuchon

FoodI AmHonoredSensitiveFactAm

With all that's going on in our lives and the world, reducing stress is important, and it's a factor in heart health.

Andie MacDowell

HeartHealthStressWorldImportant

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

Mel Brooks

WorkGoodGood WorkImmortality

It's easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Robert Kiyosaki

JobFightLosingOpinionSayWant

I want to take a few years out, maybe make a couple of more films or whatever.

Tom Felton

WantMoreYearsWhateverOutTake

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

Jay-Z

FailureFearPeopleYouLoseKnow

I'm actually just a terrible husband and a terrific exec producer. We just actually stay together for our careers. We look to the Clintons.

Jason Jones

TogetherHusbandLookProducerStay

Every defendant knows, if endowed with the mental competence for criminal responsibility, that the life he will take by his homicidal behavior is that of a unique person, like himself, and that the person to be killed probably has close associates, 'survivors,' who will suffer harms and deprivations from the victim's death.

David Souter

LifeResponsibilityDeathBehavior

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!

Christine Lahti

JobTheatreEyeChanceBetterYou

It is inevitable that those to whom is vouchsafed a long life of usefulness should outlive the friends of their youth.

Cleveland Abbe

LifeYouthFriendsLongInevitable

Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.

Aubrey de Grey

InterestingMediaCareerDoneWill

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

Sharon Olds

DepressionDayReadingEvery DayGet

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