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Hilary Mantel Quotes

When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity.

Hilary Mantel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: July 6, 1952

Topics

Revolution Choose Write Who French

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

Joe DiMaggio

Baseball Fun Game Longer

My main focus is to always try to be myself first, and then, hey, if I wear a cool jacket, that's a bonus.

John Krasinski

Myself Focus Cool Try Jacket First

We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.

Michael Graves

Good People Better Trying You Look

I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really.

Spike Jonze

Never Anything Knew Did How Before

A lot of people think a high armhole is restrictive, but it gives you total movement because it's cut right up to your arm.

Tom Ford

People Think You Right Movement Up

The Japanese fans always send weird things.

Tom Felton

Weird Always Things Fans Japanese

One thing that golf teaches you is humility.

Robert Wagner

Humility Golf You One Thing Thing

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Jonathan Swift

Morning Man Greatness Late Never

I think most of the people like the kind of player like Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez. They're pretty tall, and they can do everything.

Jose Altuve

People Think Kind Tall Everything

The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.

Annie Lennox

World Place Question Without Any

I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.

Anne Lamott

Morning Age Yourself Wish Worth Out

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

Sylvia Plath

Great Poetry Victory Growing Over