Penelope Lively Quotes

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.

Penelope Lively

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 17, 1933

Topics

ChangeWalkSocietyYouI CanSee

The passion for doing music, the passion that I have for going out and playing it live - my love for country music is back.

Joe Nichols

LoveLiveMusicPassionDoingBack

I liked being one of the fastest guys on the field.

Jesse Lee Soffer

BeingFieldLikedGuysFastest

I'm not a great clothes shopper. I tend to get a lot from Chanel. But I do like to wear menswear. I love Martin Margiela, and I often take clothes from my boyfriend's closet.

Anna Mouglalis

LoveGreatClothesWearTakeGet

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Roy H. Williams

BoredomYouChooseMarketingWant

I got over being embarrassed.

Mike Shinoda

OverEmbarrassedBeingGot

When you don't have a laugh track, you can make the clothes funny. We can make a sign funny. We can make the way somebody walks funny. The makeup can be funny.

Mitchell Hurwitz

FunnyMakeupLaughClothesYouWay

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.

Lois Lowry

WorkFamilyMeDoorGoodbyeWorld

The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.

Jon Landau

StyleEarlyRepetitionBluesRock

People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have reached at least our level of technological development.

Dimitar Sasselov

LifeAlonePeopleThinkUniverse

Being small, cute is going to do nothing.

Sergio Marchionne

CuteSmallNothingBeingGoing

Only when I am by seawater can I truly breathe, to say nothing of my ability to think.

Thomas Bernhard

I AmThinkSayNothingBreatheOnly

You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster.

Nuno Bettencourt

GreatSongYouWriteOverMonster

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