Lionel Shriver Quotes

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

Lionel Shriver

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LifeEmotionSelf-PityUnderrated

I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.' That's as fun as it gets.

Mayer Hawthorne

LifeEyesFunThinkMy LifeDoing

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Mel Brooks

TalentPeopleSkinLivingHumanHim

Women get possessive and cranky if they try to cruise with the Tooz.

John Matuszak

WomenTryCruiseGetCranky

Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.

Stephen Kinzer

IndependentDevelopmentMexicoRural

I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing and dream a little about this and that.

Siri Hustvedt

LifeGreatCookingMeThinkDoing

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

Rodney Dangerfield

LifeAgeMirrorFoodKitchenSex

If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.

Judy Biggert

EnvironmentalEnergyRiskPursueGas

I always say to people that you have never seen the best of me, and that's what I mean - I've never been fully fit.

Jonah Lomu

BestPeopleMeYouSayNever

The Premier League and the World Cup are equally important to me.

David Silva

MeWorldImportantCupWorld Cup

There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.

David Souter

PeopleIndependenceUnderstandingHow

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Arthur Cayley

BeautyEverythingTheoryExplained

If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you're living in.

Scott Rudin

LifeCultureWorldYouThreeLiving

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