Isabel Allende Quotes

The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am 71 and living in California and she is 92 and living in Chile, we are still in touch daily.

Isabel Allende

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: chilean
  • Birth: August 2, 1942

Topics

LifeMotherDailyRelationshipI Am

The written word is everything.

John Drinkwater

EverythingWordWrittenWritten Word

I'm sure my desire to perform came, in part, from being around politics as a kid. My dad had a big personality, and a lot of the people involved in Boston politics have big personalities, so there were all kinds of wacky people around.

Maura Tierney

PersonalityPoliticsPeopleDesire

Sometimes, you try something, and it works in terms of success. That doesn't mean you like what is a hit. Sometimes you like the most obscure song on your album.

Jean-Michel Jarre

SuccessSongYouSometimesTryMean

Treating people fairly and with civility is not a bad thing... It would be good for our country if political leaders actually took that to heart.

Jeb Bush

GoodHeartPeoplePoliticalBad

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

John Ruskin

BecomeRealSoonOurEvilsThem

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Stephen Covey

HeartFeelBodyAirUnderstood

You know what a wifey means? It's like your other half. Like when you get married, like, that's your wife!

Rita Ora

WifeYouKnowHalfGetYour

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

Ronald Fisher

AnalysisRatherConvenientTheorem

The things I write about are completely removed from my own life, but people want to know the characters better.

Ruth Rendell

LifePeopleBetterKnowWantMy Own

Most work is not coming up with The Next Big Thing. Rather, it's improving the thing you already thought of six months - or six years - ago. It's the work of work.

Jason Fried

WorkThoughtYouImprovingUpBig

If you're doing a music film, you've got to be singing about something.

Jonathan Demme

MusicSingingDoingYouSomething

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

Diane Sawyer

WarWorldFaceNewTerrorismPart

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