Penelope Fitzgerald Quotes

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Penelope Fitzgerald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 17, 1916 - April 28, 2000

Topics

WordsPeopleWorldThinkPersonWay

I want 'Chicago Fire' to go as long as 'SVU.'

Jesse Spencer

FireLongGoChicagoWant

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

John Thorn

HomeTimePastDinnerDieDoing

For years, kids have been asking me what's the greatest superpower. I always say luck. If you're lucky, everything works. I've been lucky.

Stan Lee

MeLuckYouSayLuckyAsking

I never did films for the money or because I needed to buy a house or car. I do it because I love my job.

Sonakshi Sinha

LoveCarMoneyJobHouseNever

I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay.

Sloane Crosley

DayMeVoiceStoryThoughtFriends

My mom, Nellie, got me a rosary at church. I don't use it to pray before a competition. I'll just pray normally to myself, but I have it there in case.

Simone Biles

MyselfCompetitionMeMomChurch

I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thought the greatest word was 'jejune' and I would throw it into every piece because something about it appealed to me.

Tom Wolfe

TimeWordsMeLookingThoughtGo

My principal contribution to the Black-Scholes option-pricing theory was to show that the dynamic trading strategy prescribed by Black and Scholes to offset the risk exposure of an option would provide a perfect hedge in the limit of continuous trading.

Robert C. Merton

BlackStrategyPerfectPrincipal

The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

Michele Bachmann

TeaRosePartySpontaneousMovement

I love hard work, energy, feeling involved.

Louise Wilson

WorkHard WorkLoveEnergyFeeling

My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.

Constance Marie

FamilyMotherBecauseLoudMostly

Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.

Clayton M. Christensen

GrowthManagementToughThingsGet

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